Re: Building and cleaning the manual in advi
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:22:00PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:47:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:08:02AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > Please look at the beginning of this thread. Essentially, there is no
> > > programm "htmlc" in Debian or in the tar ball, and all the
> > > documentation I could read in the tar ball did not talk about where to
> >
> > Oh, ok, i forgot abouyt that one. i will investigate ...
>
> Any news on this?
Nope, but this WE i will have a look, promise.
> > > get it. For the man page I don't remember the exact error, but the
> > > only difference between the source and the final man page is one
> > > substituted variable with the version. Essentially, we have two
> > > options:
> > >
> > > a) Patch the source to remove the variable (I would do this, as the
> > > man page was written for a certain version, but of course this
> > > requires updating whenever a new upstream tar ball changes the
> > > version).
> > >
> > > b) Run the source through sed or similar, i.e., automatically replace
> > > the version with the version of advi we are building. This could be
> > > achieved by a patched Makefile for the man page. Of course, this
> > > might mislead readers into thinking that the man page always fully
> > > applies to the latest version.
> >
> > That would be easy enough.
>
> I can implement this.
>
> > > If you could check the intent of upstream, that would be great, so we
> > > could follow upstreams idea then.
> >
> > Indeed, to bad i didn't think of it yesterday, as i talked with Pierre Weiss
> > about advi, but i have been out of touch of anything eail and packaging
> > related since then.
>
> Any idea when you will clarify?
I need to contact them again, which i didn't do.
> > > I also fixed the spelling of the doc-base entry; since the manual is
> > > only shipped as pdf at the moment, and doc-base does not support this
> > > (if I see that correctly), I did not add an entry to the changelog and
> > > renamed the file (svn mv). Once we have HTML-docs again, the file can
> > > be renamed back; after this fix is included, the bug can be closed
> > > manually, though.
> >
> > Ok.
>
> Given that most of the items are handled I'd like to know a rough time
> frame when it will be transferred into the main trunk for actual
> deployment in Debian. There are still some minor fixups to be done
> (like, e.g., replacing the shipped style files with the Debians once,
> improving the explanation about the missing mpeg-file, ...) but before
> continuing I'd first now like to see things available in Debian.
I can do a build this WE and upload, if you feel like it, you splitted the
packages anyway, so it will need NEW handling anyway, which may or may not
take forever.
> If there are any show stoppers from your side, or questions, then
> please ask. If you'd like to have a list of the items still on my
> TODO, I can supply it, of course (but most items we've already
> discussed in this and the previous thread).
Just lack of time. Need to get the powerpc kernels in shape before d-i rc3,
and this is highest priority for me now. But will find time this WE.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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