Re: migration of www-master.debian.org to stretch; issue when building the release notes
Hello all
El 15/09/17 a las 20:59, Holger Wansing escribió:
> Hi,
>
> Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>> xmlroff has the same package version 0.6.2-1.3 in both jessie and
>> stretch, so one would reasonably expect for that package to behave
>> similarily in both stretch and jessie. So the problem you found above
>> looks like a regression. Maybe Gnome in stretch has seen some changes
>> that makes xmlroff not find the corresponding parts of gnome any more
>> during runtime. Anyway, if that would be the case, then that dependency
>> should be somehow visible in the Depends:/Recommends:/Suggests: of the
>> package, which, as far as I can see, is not the case.
>>
>> So again I'd suggest to either file a bug report against xmlroff or to
>> talk to the maintainer.
>
> This is likely to gain no success, because xmlroff has been orphaned.
> So no maintainer :-(
>
> Since the problem is with pdf variants for Squeeze (!), disabling the
> pdf variants for those release-notes would be a way to work around this
> problem? Squeeze is old for ages, so missing pdfs should be no problem there.
>
> (PS: Is this really correct, that release-notes are still build for those old
> releases on-the-fly? I would have thought that those documents are extracted
> from the relevant existing packages, here: release-notes in squeeze.
> Maybe I am missing something ... )
>
Yesterday the machine that builds the website and the release notes was
upgraded to stretch. Before that, some days ago I dropped the building
of the release notes for squeeze:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debwww/cron.git/commit/?id=95cdc9b2ce121d0dfb49d97041cce303bc84bafd
Thus we are not getting the xmlroff errors. The PDFs are not missing,
the webpages point to the last PDF files available (as with the other
old Debian versions), so I guess everything is ok.
We're getting other kind of errors related to the release notes builds,
but those errors were present before the machine upgrade. I'll try to
better diagnose then and file a bug against the release-notes package or
talk with the documentation team.
Best regards
--
Laura Arjona
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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