[PyX-devel] minor comments about 0.6.3 tarball, Debian package for PyX 0.6.3

[Faheem M. <fa...@em...>]

Dear PyX Developers,

I recently discovered PyX. I had recently started using Python, and read
an article on PyX in lwn.net (April 15th edition).
http://lwn.net/Articles/79562/ is the url.

This looks like a very interesting project.

Since the official Debian package is hopelessly out of date, I spent a bit
of time rolling my own. This was relatively easy since I was able to build
on the work of the official Debian package.

I use the version control system, subversion, so I tried using the Debian
helper scripts svn-buildpackage
(http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/svn-buildpackage).

svn-buildpackage got upset becasuse the upstream tarball contains
manual/manual.pdf, but this gets cleaned by `make clean' and gets built by
make, so it looks like it should not be there in the upstream tarball. The
same comments apply to faq/pyfaq.pdf.

I've considering removing these from the upstream tarball and rebuilding
it, but I thought I would ask here first, since the tarball is supposed to
correspond to pristine sources. Perhaps the *.pdf files were provided for
people who don't want to build their own docs? It was not there in the
0.4.1 version in the official Debian package (I have not checked the
others). It does make the tarball rather big.

Also, there appears to be no way to generate examples/examples.pdf from
source. Is that correct?

Also, I ran into errors when trying to build manual.html. I'd appreciate
assistance on this, though the error messages were not very useful, so I
am not sure how much information I can provide.

                                                              Faheem.