discuss: Debian LinuxDoc is no longer unmaintained (sort of)
Subject:
Debian LinuxDoc is no longer unmaintained (sort of)
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
2 Dec 2006 18:26:35 -0000
Message-Id: <20061202091723.GA5842@davespc>
The maintainer for Debian's LinuxDoc tools disappeared a few years ago
and I thought that it was no longer maintained. But checking Debian's
website shows that several bugs have been fixed in the past few years.
They were fixed by "non-maintainer uploads" by various persons other
than the maintainer. So it's good to know that even though it doesn't
have a maintainer (or at least not an active one), it is being
maintained sporadically, which is certainly better than no maintenance
at all.
There are some significant improvements that are needed to make
LinuxDoc easier to use which remain to be implemented by someone. For
example, you shouldn't need to specify typewriter fonts for a verbatim
environment. It should be the default. And plain text output should
also be the default when you ask for text output, not text with
embedded escape sequences for highlighting emphasized text on a VT100
terminal, etc. Well, I suppose it could use **emphasis** for
emphasis and it would still be plain text.
David Lawyer
