Re: Bug#932957: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

Hi again,

Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote (Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:19:07 +0100):
> Time for a status update:
> Since the new release-notes itself are now being built on www-master (based
> on Sphinx), some changings were needed for the webpage (currently 
> www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes), because we no longer have
> separate release-notes for the different release-archs.
> 
> I did that yesterday, let's say as a proposal.
> 
> Previously, there was some sort of black magic (or maybe it's perl), 
> which automatically creates a table with all architectures, languages,
> and output formats of the r-n.
> Changing this mechanism to leave out the architecture part is out of my
> skills, but I managed to copy (and adapt) the logic which is being used in 
> the debian.org/doc part of the website, to generate the list of available 
> languages and formats for the different manuals there.
> 
> It looks fine IMO, and it also works. However new languages are not 
> displayed automatically, so compared to the old mechanism there might
> be some handwork needed at some point (but rare I guess).
> 
> 
> @webmaster, @release-team, @ddp-team: what do you think? Would this
> proposal be acceptable to you for the new release-notes (trixie and later)?

And since there has been a call for a Debian theme for Sphinx (see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053549), a proposal
for that can be found at
https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/sphinx-theme-for-debian/alabaster/release-notes/
(for those, who are uncomfortable with the greenish theme).


Holger