From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QagVb-0000S1-22 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:59:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 057A41C0BB; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay06.ispgateway.de (smtprelay06.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.102]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF2B1C0BB for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.7.97] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtprelay06.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1QagVH-0007AE-UI for gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:59:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4E06AE99.4090006@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:59:21 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110526 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc? References: <4E03DD4C.7050005@gentoo.org> <1308899274.624.67.camel@tablet> <4E04C66B.4010302@gentoo.org> <4E061FD0.4050009@gentoo.org> <4E069B1F.8040409@gentoo.org> <20110626024929.GA6506@linux1> <4E06A41E.6000705@gentoo.org> <20110626033613.GA6577@linux1> <20110626034605.GA6693@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20110626034605.GA6693@linux1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: sping-gentoo@binera.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7347b298b6441b8cec86cec23b6e3669 On 06/26/2011 05:46 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > I need to appologise for the last comment I made in my previous message > about you not discussing this issue. I see that you did mention it, but > it was before I came on board. > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-catalyst/msg_78cd6eae401bfa7a499418bc6cbc225e.xml > > I hope you will accept my appology. Yes, no problem. > However, I would still like to know why this conversion was needed; To increase the fun maintaining it for present and future. Run "make && man ./files/catalyst.1" to see how much better it looks now than a few days ago. I wouldn't have spent time on improving it at *roff level. > all > we had to do was update the manpage. The conversion does make it more > difficult for us to generate reproducable tarballs, which means that for > gentoo's qa policy someone always has to keep the tarball we use in > their dev space and we have to point to that tarball with SRC_URI. I'm not following. We have to keep the tarball on mirrors anyway. Not? No generated files means maintaining some things at several places. Without the generator, mips2 and mipsel2 would still be listed on catalyst's webpage. > But, that would not be necessary if we generate the tarball from the git > repo e.g. the way openrc does. Alright. I don't want to limit myself to a static man page (or live with generated files under version control). Best, Sebastian