Re: Possible trimming of build dependencies

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>, 2010-05-16, 16:06:
> >            override_dh_auto_build:
> >                    xsltproc --nonet \
> >                     --param make.year.ranges 1 \
> >                     --param make.single.year.ranges 1 \
> >                     --param man.charmap.use.subset 0 \
> >                     -o debian/ \
> >              http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl \
> >                    debian/gentoo.1.xml
> >                    dh_auto_build
>
> What do those --param options do?

make.year.ranges and make.single.year.ranges affect how consequent 
<year> elements are rendered; when you turn them on, you'll get:
"Copyright © 2039-2042 J. Random Hacker"
istead of 
"Copyright © 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042 J. Random Hacker"

DocBook XSLs can convert ca. 800 Unicode character into roff sequences.  
However, for efficiency reasons, only a small subset of these character 
is used by default. AFAIR this subset doesn't include e.g. the copyright 
sign, so man.charmap.use.subset=0 is needed to make the conversion sane.

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Jakub Wilk

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