Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2024-09-07 Thread Norbert Preining
What a long email ... On Fri, 06 Sep 2024, Manny wrote: > eb> The manpage refers to ONLINE documentation. IMHO this should be part > eb> of a package and NOT require a user to establish internet > eb> connection. > > Indeed, docs that are exclusively online are a detriment to the > quality of Deb

Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2024-09-06 Thread Hilmar Preuße
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam/issues/30 Control: tags -1 - wontfix Am 14.11.2020 um 11:17 schrieb Eduard Bloch: Hi, Even the --help output is not helping. It tells a few things about options but it does NOT mention what the actual operations are. Tried to explain thi

Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2024-09-06 Thread Manny
For quotes below: eb ← Eduard Bloch np ← Norbert Preining eb> The manpage refers to ONLINE documentation. IMHO this should be part eb> of a package and NOT require a user to establish internet eb> connection. Indeed, docs that are exclusively online are a detriment to the quality of Debian.

Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2020-11-29 Thread Norbert Preining
tags 974724 + wontfix thanks Hi > And who decided to put dozens of separate tools into monster packages? That was a decision back 15 years ago on debian-devel, where I asked whether we should package each TeX Live package into a single Debian package or make groups according to the collections o

Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2020-11-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Norbert Preining [Thu, Nov 26 2020, 01:41:15PM]: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2020, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > First, in former times it was easy to find pdfjam because the package > > Yes, but now it is part of the TeX Live group and we cannot include the > long description of every single included TeX

Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2020-11-25 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020, Eduard Bloch wrote: > First, in former times it was easy to find pdfjam because the package Yes, but now it is part of the TeX Live group and we cannot include the long description of every single included TeX package in the long description of the Debian package, it would fil

Bug#974724: no useful documentation of pdfjam commands

2020-11-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: texlive-extra-utils Version: 2020.20200925-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfjam/pdfjam Hi, reporting this as minor here because the usability is severely impacted. First, in former times it was easy to find pdfjam because the package description mentioned