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On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 15:52 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 3/26/19 3:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 19:33 +0000, Aaron Bauman wrote: |
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> > > commit: 2e32186bbee30a4a2e1c4f37c79c61897e53d8df |
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> > > Author: Michael Mair-Keimberger <m.mairkeimberger <AT> gmail <DOT> com> |
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> > > AuthorDate: Tue Mar 26 19:28:48 2019 +0000 |
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> > > Commit: Aaron Bauman <bman <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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> > > CommitDate: Tue Mar 26 19:32:52 2019 +0000 |
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> > > URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2e32186b |
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> > > |
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> > > app-doc/eclass-manpages: remove unused file |
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> > Cool. It figures life's gonna be much easier now that we don't have |
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> > the tool to generate those manpages. |
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First of all, I'm sorry, this wasn't supposed to go to -dev. I removed |
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-commits but failed to notice -dev appended somewhere as well. |
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> In their defense, that package is structured ridiculously. |
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Yep, guess who did it. |
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> We certainly |
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> shouldn't be using $FILESDIR as the source control repository for the |
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> shell/awk scripts that generate the man pages. If anything, they belong |
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> in their own package, with their own "upstream" project/repository. The |
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> eclass-manpages package would then (build-) depend on the scripts -- at |
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> least for -9999 version that builds them on the fly. |
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I was thinking about doing this for quite some time. Never found enough |
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motivation though. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |