[Pkg-octave-devel] Merging octave-{doc,info,htmldoc}

[Sébastien Villemot]

Hi,

Currently we have 3 doc packages for octave, that ship the same material under
different formats:
- octave-doc: PDF format, compressed deb ~5Mb, unpacked ~5.4Mb
- octave-htmldoc: HTML format, compressed deb ~1.5Mb, unpacked ~12.5Mb
- octave-info: info format, compressed deb ~1Mb, unpacked ~1Mb

I think we should merge all of them into a single package (octave-doc), the
gain space is very small for someone who wants only one format, and somebody
installing documentation packages is unlikely to be space-constrained (it's
clearly not an embedded system).

Moreover, that would simplify the presentation of the documents in the doc-base
system, because the user manual has two entries in the system (one for PDF, one
for HTML), while it would make more sense to have only one entry (showing
the two formats for the same document, as is possible with doc-base). The same
applies to the library/developers' manual.

octave-htmldoc and octave-info would become transitional packages, dropped
after buster is released.

Is that ok with you?

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