Hi Alex, At 2023-08-01T01:15:02+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Nah, I eyeballed random samples the diff and it looked good. That, > and your extensive tests, make me confident enough. If we screwed > anything, we can fix it. > > The only concern I had some time ago was with code like exit(1), but > that should be using italics today, so it shouldn't be a problem. I > can't imagine big issues. Well, we'll see how it sits in your 'MR' branch for a while. Maybe we can recruit some beta testers. > > Please do verify it yourself with the tools above (or better ones). > > I'm well aware that this is a huge change that can make people > > nervous. > > I applied the patch, amended the message with a quote from this email, > and pushed to the MR branch in my private git repo at > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=MR>. I saw. Thanks! > Oh, and I also removed a few pages from your patch, per CONTRIBUTING > guidelines: > > Notes > External and autogenerated pages > A few pages come from external sources. Fixes to the pages > should really go to the upstream source. > > tzfile(5), tzselect(8), zdump(8), and zic(8) come from the tz > project <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>. > > bpf-helpers(7) is autogenerated from the Linux kernel sources > using scripts. See man-pages commits 53666f6c3 and 19c7f7839 for > details. Right, thank you. I completely zoned about those. Unfortunately none of the time zone pages offer any hint I can see that they're autogenerated, so (short of hard-coding a list), they can't be automatically excluded from global changes. bpf-helpers does announce that it's produced by rst2man (without naming the tool explicitly). The good news is that I've started to have a look at how rst2man works. Dmitry Schachnev of the Debian Python team was really helpful in this area. I've poked and prodded it a bit. Found some gaps. I'm afraid I might horrify Engelbert Gruber, the upstream maintainer. Regards, Branden
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