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  • info2www and/or encourage more html documentation

    From Diane Trout@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 13 23:10:01 2022
    Hi,

    I noticed info2www fell out of testing a while back, but has been
    abandoned upstream and doesn't look maintained in Debian.

    Do people think it's worth trying to keep it alive?

    I was willing to salvage it and update the packaging to current
    standards, though I'm not sure how well I could fix a security issue in
    a perl cgi script if someone finds something still wrong in a 14 year
    program.

    I asked a bit on #debian-devel in irc and seemed like keeping an old
    cgi script running is perhaps questionable, and that perhaps packages
    that currently only ship info docs should also ship html documentation.

    For what it's worth generating html documentation directly from the
    texinfo source with texi2any --html does make nicer documentation than
    is possible with info2www.

    I thought it worth asking the doc team what you all thought.

    Diane

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  • From Joost van =?utf-8?Q?Baal-Ili=C4=87?@21:1/5 to Diane Trout on Mon Mar 14 08:10:01 2022
    Hi Diane,

    On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:24:37PM -0700, Diane Trout wrote:

    I noticed info2www fell out of testing a while back, but has been
    abandoned upstream and doesn't look maintained in Debian.

    Do people think it's worth trying to keep it alive?

    I was willing to salvage it and update the packaging to current
    standards, though I'm not sure how well I could fix a security issue in
    a perl cgi script if someone finds something still wrong in a 14 year program.

    I asked a bit on #debian-devel in irc and seemed like keeping an old
    cgi script running is perhaps questionable, and that perhaps packages
    that currently only ship info docs should also ship html documentation.

    For what it's worth generating html documentation directly from the
    texinfo source with texi2any --html does make nicer documentation than
    is possible with info2www.

    I thought it worth asking the doc team what you all thought.

    I feel info2www served it's purpose back in the days, these days people should use a better alternative like texi2any --html. I agree it'd be nice if packages that currently only ship info docs would also ship html.

    My € 0,02.

    Thanks for raising this subject here, Bye,

    Joost

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