pdf2htmlEX-packagingTools

A collection of build and packaging tools for the pdf2htmlEX project

We tag/release these files in sync with the pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX releases

Project layout:

1. the building directory contains an Ansible project which knows how to commision an AWS EC2 instance (typically an Ubuntu AMI), for use to test-compile, package, and test-install a given pdf2htmlEX (potential) release on a clean known Linux release. (See the Ansible documentation)

2. the packaging directory contains the debian based build_dists.py packaging tool and associated files. These are automatically copied into the pdf2htmlEX project on the AWS EC2 build machine by the ec2-install-pdf2html-master.yml ansible playbook.

3. the docs directory contains more detailed information used to develop new versions of pdf2htmlEX. In particular:

   • NewPopplerRelease contains a useful collection of steps use to bring pdf2htmlEX sources up to date with a new poppler release.

   • TipsAndTricks contains ideas which have been useful in the past for identifying how changes to poppler might impact pdf2htmlEX.

To do

At the moment the debian based build script does not sign the debian archive. We should be good people and fix this...