On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:17:20AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wait, there is less than 70MB of PDF. Yes, this is true. Due to > > difficulties of making nice PDF out of XML/SGML without hitting FTBFS, > > many packages does not bother PDF creation. Most of the doc containing > > PDF are: > > Can you please be more specific about "difficulties ... nice ... FTBFS"? > There have been some problems when teTeX 3.0 was uploaded to sid after > sarge's release, but that was a one-time problem (and the central > packages like debiandoc-smgl, linuxdoc etc. were fixed quite fast; > db2latex was harder). Do you imply that people stopped generating PDF > files last summer/autumn because of these problems?
That pretty much it. > Or are there other > problems I am not aware of? doc-debian used to loop 6 times to build PDF. Many Debiandoc packages did not contain PDF for cjk. New build script is much more stable. I know some package build PDF first as upstream. I fupdown does not come with documentation. ...
