[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#866053: ITP: emacs-ivy-doc -- documentation for emacs' Incremental Vertical completYon



Hello Nicholas,

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> From what I've gathered (IIRC), upstream generates the .texi from the
> .org with the assistance of doc/ivy-ox.el, and additionally requires
> org-mode to be installed as a build-dep.

Org-mode is bundled with Emacs!  The org-mode package just installs a
newer version, which you probably won't need.

> I would like to defer this issue in the form of a bug filed against
> emacs-ivy-doc, and continue using makeinfo ivy.texi for now, because
> it insures that builds are reproducible.  AFAIK this course of action
> doesn't go against Policy.  Of course if it ever results in something
> aberrant then I'll be forced to fix it then...

If I've followed the discussion correctly, this would be fine.

> Alternatively I'd be happy to add this to the list of things I'll work
> on during Debcamp.  Btw, should I summarise these in few points on the
> pkg-emacsen wiki page?

I'm not sure what you want to summarise... but it's a wiki, so you are
welcome to edit it.

> At present muse-el is unreproducible because generates documentation
> through a similar internal mechanism (IIRC), but in this case I have
> no choice but to try to fix it... and if reproducible builds are
> required for Buster and I fail at this then muse-el will be dropped.

I'm pretty sure it will not be a hard requirement, but thank you for
taking it into account during your packaging work.

-- 
Sean Whitton

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: