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12.4 Preferred documentation formats
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The unification of Debian documentation is being carried out via HTML.

If the package comes with extensive documentation in a markup format
that can be converted to various other formats you should if possible
ship HTML versions in a binary package.  (1) The documentation must be
installed as specified in Note: Additional documentation.

Other formats such as PostScript may be provided at the package
maintainer’s discretion.

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   (1) Rationale: The important thing here is that HTML documentation
should be available from `some' binary package.