Timetable for 3.3.12 release. Documentation issues

Peter Wainwright writes:
 > Unless anyone objects, I'd like to release 3.3.12 next week (Sunday 8th
 > Feb).
 > 
 > After that I think it would be a good idea to move to a more frequent
 > release schedule, perhaps on a 6-monthly basis...
 > 
 > I'm having a few issues with the documentation.  The DDD manual in PDF
 > form is fine.  However, previous releases have also contained ddd.ps,
 > which I'm having trouble with.  ddd/Makefile creates this using pdf2ps,
 > which seems to create a huge (53 MB!) file.  Looks like stuff has been
 > rasterized by the print driver.
 > 
 > I tried instead to do "make dvi" and dvips, but on my system texi2dvi
 > does not create a DVI but a PDF file.  I think I've seen references to
 > this problem, I wonder if anyone knows a fix for this.

To make ddd.ps. 

1. Make sure pdftops is installed. (This is part of TeXLive or the 
   Debian/Ubuntu "context" package

2. Alter ddd/Makefile.am to change EPSTOPDF to pstopdf. Patch is attached

3. In the doc directory, type:
   make ../doc/ddd.ps


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Index: ddd/Makefile.am
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--- ddd/Makefile.am	(revision 7173)
+++ ddd/Makefile.am	(working copy)
@@ -1408,9 +1408,10 @@
 # The ImageMagick `convert' program (convert)
 CONVERT    = convert
 
-# The epstopdf program.  (epstopdf)
-# Available from http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/epstopdf
-EPSTOPDF = epstopdf
+# The pstopdf program. 
+# Available from http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/
+# or from TeX Live. On Debian/Ubuntu this is the "context" package.
+EPSTOPDF = pstopdf
 
 # The fig2dev command.  (fig2dev)
 FIG2DEV = fig2dev