Re: Building and cleaning the manual in advi
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:47:48PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Sven,
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > > > > 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.
>
> Done.
>
> > 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.
>
> But do not load up exactly as in SVN first check for FIXMEs (there are
> three) and resolve them as you see fit. (The man page one you already
> decided, but you might leave it to indicate the work to do).
Notice that since we split the packages, we will have to go through NEW, so
the earlier we do the better, even though all is not yet perfect.
I will sort these issues before uploading though, and thanks for the
tremendous job you did on this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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