Bug#849483: debian-policy: emacs build dependencies probably need adjustment
Hi!
On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 11:29:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Just converting that file to Markdown is probably the best solution.
> Thanks! I just switched Emacs versions since that was easy and simple,
> but org-mode is a bit obscure as a document formatting mechanism, and
> we're already using Markdown for something else.
Perfect, let me know if you want something else changed/improved in
that patch.
> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> > I've only build tested the specific files, because I'm getting at least
> > two build failures, the first due to a bogus tag (patch attached),
>
> This is already fixed, sorry. I keep forgetting to actually run make
> after applying patches. :(
No problem!
> > the other with debiandoc2latexps failing with:
>
> > ,---
> > LANG=C debiandoc2latexps policy.sgml
> > debiandoc2latexps: ERROR: policy.dvi could not be generated properly
> > debiandoc2latexps: rerun with the -v option to find out why
> > debiandoc2latexps: or check the log file policy.log
> > Makefile:35: recipe for target 'policy.ps' failed
> > `---
>
> > I'm attaching the policy.log, but I don't see anything obvious there. :/
> > BTW I don't install recommends by default on my systems.
>
> I can't duplicate this even with all the Recommends of debiandoc2latexps
> removed, and the package builds fine in a clean chroot, so I have no idea
> what you're running into. :(
It happens on my main system, on a clean chroot it works fine. AFAIR a
diff of some generated intermediate files tells me that there's at
least some encoding problems. But this got annoying fast and decided
that it might be better to do the conversion to DocBook instead of
tracking this down.
I'll post what I've got up to now on the relevant bug report. :)
Thanks,
Guillem
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