[DebianGIS-dev] [DebianGIS] Specific packages for SAR and earth observation

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Francesco, hi David,

Il giorno Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:25:21 +0100
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie at debian.org> ha scritto:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > > Unfortunately PDF files also include the user manual end the
> > > reference documentation of functions the program provides.
> > > The program GUI has a menu from which the user can select the
> > > document to show (the document is displayed in the pdf-reder
> > > program).
> > > 
> > > Sources of PDF documents are not provided so I think need to have
> > > PDFs around.
> > 
> > Then it can't go to Debian main. It can (maybe) go to non-free
> > though.

OK David.

> > Please ask upstream to provide sources for those PDFs, or strip
> > them from the tarball.
> > 
> 
> It is a common practice splitting in another source package the guilty
> docs and providing them in non-free. 

I like this solution!
From a VCS point of view the layout would be

polsarpro (ds package 71M of sources)
polsarpro-doc (non-free package with only the debian directory inside)

Isn't it?


> Please, check possibly an adjoint
> explicit license for documentation. Let me guess, they wrote
> documentation in Word :-P ?
> 

:) Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.7 pour Word

ciao

-- 
Antonio Valentino