On Mon, 19 May 2014, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If Ubuntu does not want to use highlight, it can apply a change like the > patch in question as part of their fork to make the end result > consistent and they are failing to do so. Sure, Ubuntu can apply that patch, but the larger problem remains: if the Ubuntu packaging is even slightly different from Debian’s, it is no longer eligible for automatic synchronization from Debian. When that has happened in the past, the result was that the Ubuntu version languished far behind the Debian version, because Canonical doesn’t have the manpower to manually merge every Debian update. Ubuntu 9.04 shipped with Git 1.6.0.4 instead of 1.6.2.4 because they had failed to update their packaging after patching out a dependency on cvsps. If this Ubuntu nonsense were obstructing something important upstream, then of course I would be yelling at Ubuntu to get their act together; in that case, I filed a main inclusion report to get Canonical to officially support cvsps (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369111) so Ubuntu could drop their patch. But here we’re talking about syntax highlighting in one page of internal documentation that basically nobody is going to read, and that argument wouldn’t carry any weight. We could put the patch into Debian instead of Ubuntu to eliminate the Ubuntu delta; Jonathan has been friendly enough to Ubuntu that I think he would grudgingly agree. But I’m submitting it upstream because other distros will eventually run into the same problem: there’s no obvious cue that source-highlight needs to be added as a new dependency besides a warning message buried in the middle of the build log. > How bad does the documentation look with the patch applied (I know how > bad it looks without source-highlight installed)? If it is not too bad, > then it sounds like a sensible solution to drop the highlight markup > unconditionally like the patch that started this thread does, taking the > "common denominator" approach. You seem to agree, and I do not object, > either. Original version with syntax-highlight installed (pretty): http://web.mit.edu/andersk/Public/api-hashmap/old-highlight.html Original version with syntax-highlight missing (corrupted): http://web.mit.edu/andersk/Public/api-hashmap/old-no-highlight.html Patched version (boring but readable): http://web.mit.edu/andersk/Public/api-hashmap/patched.html Anders -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html