[xml/sgml-pkgs] Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

[Frank Küster]

Andreas Hoenen <andreas.hoenen at arcor.de> wrote:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andreas Hoenen <andreas.hoenen at arcor.de>
>
>
> * Package name    : dblatex
>   Version         : 0.1.8
>   Upstream Author : Benoit Guillon <marsgui at users.sourceforge.net>
> * URL             : http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources
>
> DocBook to LaTeX Publishing that transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to
> DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process.
> MathML 2.0 markups are supported, too. It is a clone of DB2LaTeX.

... which is already in Debian, and apparently hardly maintained.  If
this upstream branch is in fact better suited, and you will have enough
energy to maintain it properly, I think you should try to replace
db2latex (and coordinate with its current maintainers).  Helping
to bring db2latex into a better shape isn't an option for you?

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)