developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
the appropriate tool via USE_TOOLS (usually "gs:run"), and remove
ghostscript.mk. This change removes a rather out-dated file from
pkgsrc and switches packages to use the more compact implementation
of the Ghostcript-handling inside the tools framework.
around at either build-time or at run-time is:
USE_TOOLS+= perl # build-time
USE_TOOLS+= perl:run # run-time
Also remove some places where perl5/buildlink3.mk was being included
by a package Makefile, but all that the package wanted was the Perl
executable.
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
Provided in PR 12884 by Jesse Off (joff@newmonics.com)
"External converter script for ht://Dig (version 3.1.4 and later), that
converts Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, and PDF,
PostScript, RTF, and WordPerfect files to text (in HTML form) so they
can be indexed. Uses a variety of conversion programs:
wp2html - to convert Wordperfect and Word7 & 97 documents to HTML
catdoc - to extract text from Word documents
rtf2html - to convert RTF documents to HTML
pdftotext - to extract text from Adobe PDFs
ps2ascii - to extract text from PostScript
pptHtml - to convert Powerpoint files to HTML
xlHtml - to convert Excel spreadsheets to HTML
or
xls2csv - to obtain data from Excel spreadsheets.
Written by David Adams (University of Southampton), and based on the
conv_doc.pl script by Gilles Detillieux."
