Re: [exim] A bunch of documentation bug reports from Debian

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Auteur: Marc Haber
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] A bunch of documentation bug reports from Debian
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:47:20AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> > this is a bunch of documentation bugs. The bug progress reports can be
> > seen on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=eximdoc4
>
> The majority of these reports are concerned with the Techinfo ("info")
> version of the documentation. This has always been troublesome to
> maintain, as I am not a Techinfo person, and the script that makes it is
> a lash-up that I keep having to fix up (because I keep tripping over the
> syntax).
>
> Once Exim 4.50 is released, I am going to be working on converting the
> source documentation into a new, more standard form. It is not clear how
> the Techinfo version will be made in future. It will have to be done
> using standard software, if such exists (I have not investigated yet).
> All new document processing will have to be able to start from DocBook.
>
> If there is no standard way of making the Texinfo files from DocBook
> (either directly, or, for example, from the HTML output), then I propose
> not to continue with that version of the documentation.


Please tell us if you want us to drop the TeXinfo version of the docs.

Greetings
Marc

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