Hi Branden,
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to have a constant '.so
man-pages-colophon.man' line at the end of all of the Linux man-pages,
instead of appending a COLOPHON at every release. The
man-pages-colophon.man file would be shiped together with the pages, and
it would be created by `make dist`.
I think it's unnecessary to provide a dummy file in the repo, right? I
mean, .so is not like #include that would fail hard if the file doesn't
exist. It will instead just continue, right?
Do you think it would be a good idea?
I was making the COLOPHON be part of the `make dist` command (to avoid
having to generate it separately), and this would simplify things a lot.
Not having to append to files controlled by make(1) would avoid having
to rerun many recipes.
Cheers,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
