Bug#1062983: Updated devel-manuals?

"Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]> Sun, 17 May 2026 21:02:16 +0200

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reopen 1062983
tags 1062983 + patch
thanks

hi Sebastian,

On Sun May 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM CEST, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
> Am I missing something? When I download the PDF from here, then my PDF 
> Viewer still says its letter. Or maybe this is still being served from 
> an older version of the package?
>
> I navigated to https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals and downloaded
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developers-reference.en.pdf
>
>  > fixed 1062983 14.6

you're right, thanks for calling this out. attached a patch to force A4.

thanks,
serafi

0001-conf.py-set-paper-size-to-A4.-Closes-1062983.patch (text/x-patch, 683 B)

From 904f6262b487d3e3f300d028a72eb2c5f4f47700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 20:59:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] conf.py: set paper size to A4. Closes: #1062983.

---
 source/conf.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/source/conf.py b/source/conf.py
index e2eb911..467f05e 100644
--- a/source/conf.py
+++ b/source/conf.py
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ htmlhelp_basename = _package
 latex_elements = {
     # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
     #
-    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+    'papersize': 'a4paper',
 
     # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
     #
-- 
2.47.3

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