Re: Possible trimming of build dependencies

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>, 2010-05-16, 12:57:
> > > Originally I used xsltproc to generate roxterm's man pages, as per 
> > > the example in the New Maintainers' Guide, but when I moved the man 
> > > pages upstream I got a bug report because the location of docbook.xsl 
> > > isn't consistent across OSs
> >
> > Just use 
> > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl 
> > instead of the file name. Thanks to XML catalogs, xsltproc _won't_ 
> > download this file if docbook-xsl is installed.
>
> Thanks, that sounds ideal. Should I still use the -nonet option?

You either need --nonet or --novalid or additional build-dependency on 
docbook-xml; otherwise xsltproc would try to download DTD for DocBook.

I recommend to always use xsltproc with --nonet, even if it is not 
necessary.

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Jakub Wilk

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