Subject: Re: epsf.tex: New file

From: Simon Josefsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:45:21 +0200

Karl Berry <[email-masked]> writes:

> For GNU packages, dvi and pdf will normally be tested anyway as part of
> a release, due to the need to upload the new manuals to www.gnu.org.
> Perhaps we should remove dvi from there ... -k

Yes, as a start, could we drop linking to DVI manuals from gnulib's
gendocs_template*?  That ought to (gradually) at least remove them from
users eyes.  The next step may be to stop generating the files, but that
is a bigger change and maybe the discussion needs to come to a still
before doing that is the right thing.

/Simon
diff --git a/doc/gendocs_template b/doc/gendocs_template
index 9069a54787..f342613739 100644
--- a/doc/gendocs_template
+++ b/doc/gendocs_template
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ without any warranty.
     (%%ASCII_SIZE%%K bytes)</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.txt.gz">ASCII text compressed
     (%%ASCII_GZ_SIZE%%K bytes gzipped)</a>.</li>
-<li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.dvi.gz">TeX dvi file
-    (%%DVI_GZ_SIZE%%K bytes gzipped)</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.pdf">PDF file
     (%%PDF_SIZE%%K bytes)</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.texi.tar.gz">Texinfo source
diff --git a/doc/gendocs_template_min b/doc/gendocs_template_min
index d4968a249a..fb58adffae 100644
--- a/doc/gendocs_template_min
+++ b/doc/gendocs_template_min
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ without any warranty.
     (%%ASCII_SIZE%%K bytes)</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.txt.gz">ASCII text compressed
     (%%ASCII_GZ_SIZE%%K bytes gzipped)</a>.</li>
-<li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.dvi.gz">TeX dvi file
-    (%%DVI_GZ_SIZE%%K bytes gzipped)</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.pdf">PDF file
     (%%PDF_SIZE%%K bytes)</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="%%PACKAGE%%.texi.tar.gz">Texinfo source