Bug#848818: xterm: ctlseqs.txt is not rebuilt from ctlseq.ms
Control: reopen -1
Control: tags -1 - wontfix
On 2016-12-21 05:39 +0000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>> severity 848818 wishlist
>> close 848818
>>
>> I'm not going to discuss this further -
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
>> http://invisible-island.net/personal/changelogs.html#problem_hostile
>
> It's been a while since I've had one of these arguments, but reviewing
> Policy 2.1 I agree.
>
> Failure to generate ctlseqs.* from ctlseqs.ms would be a GPL violation
> and thus a "serious" bug if:
> 1. The document were under the GPL; and
> 2. Debian didn't make the ctlseqs.ms and the requisite tools for
> generating its dervative forms available.
>
> ...but neither of those prerequisites is the case.
>
> That said, I think it would be _nice_ if a package produced all its
> generated forms of documentation from their source forms as part of
> the build process, and declared Build-Depends appropriately.
Yes, that's considered best practice. Thus I'm re-opening the bug.
Cheers,
Sven
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