On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:44:18PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:27:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > PA4 is the largest format that fits on both A4 and U.S./Canadian > > > "Letter" paper without resizing. I'd like this to be recommended as > > > the paper size for PDF and PS documents in /usr/share/doc by Debian > > > Policy.
> > I'm not sure Policy is the appropriate place to start with a request like > > this. Policy for the most part codifies things that are already generally > > accepted by the project and widely implemented in the project. The best > > way to make changes like this is to build a consensus among Debian > > developers that it is the right thing to do and to implement it widely, > > and only then propose the Policy change. > OK, so I should raise "please use PA4" bugs against individual > packages that ship Letter (or A4) PDFs, and then once most of them > have been fixed re-open this (#495170) bug? I would suggest also providing some recipe by which this can generally be accomplished on maintainer's systems, without requiring them to wrongly modify /etc/papersize on their build system or mangle the upstream build rules. E.g., it appears that setting PAPERSIZE in the environment is the correct way to override default settings from libpaper. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
