On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:44 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 13:07, Nils K <nilskemail+github@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I recently had to perform a bit of development/research where I often had to take a look in the kernel documentation. > > > > Most of the time was spend offline so I wanted to download the `kernel-doc` package however it does not seem to exist. > > Some old fedora documentations still refer to it however somewhere in the 2x iteration of fedora it seems to have gone missing. > > CentOS 8 also still has it. > > Would it be possible to add this back to the repos? > > It isn't that we aren't shipping it, it is that the Kernel spec file > does not generate any documentation anymore. It looks like Fedora 20 > made this change but I don't know why beyond > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223200 . While EL-8 is It required koji hacks to build at the time, and the Fedora kernel revved daily. The value of producing the docs package when the same docs are available on kernel.org was very low. We removed it. > based on Fedora-28, the kernel team for RHEL uses a different spec > file. It also did not start shipping with the kernel-doc but looks to > have been added with > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659636 > > At this point I suggest you file a bug against the kernel and cite > those two bugs. The current kernel team can work out what work it > would be needed and if it could be added. The move to ARK changed the dynamics a bit. I think there was a request elsewhere to build it as well. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
