Am Mittwoch, den 27.12.2017, 13:13 +0200 schrieb Leon Romanovsky: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:53:53AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Am Sonntag, den 24.12.2017, 14:03 +0200 schrieb Yishai Hadas: > > > > > > On 12/13/2017 12:59 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > > pandoc is fairly widely available in the distros with the > > > > > notable > > > > > > > > problem that centos 6 and 7 can only get it from EPEL. > > > > > > > > > > There might be even a worse case scenario where pandoc may not > > > exist > > > as > > > a package to be installed, for example how about SLES OS ? > > > > The release tarball could contain pre-built man page. So in case > > the OS > > does provide pandoc to regenerate the man pages, the pre-built can > > be > > used. > > Why should OS be dependent on pandoc? IMHO all releases should > contain > pre-built man pages and they should be used without need to > regenerate > them at all. Debian's rule is to build everything from source where the source is in the preferred format for modification. So we will drop the pre-build man pages and build them from source - even if that would not be needed. This is useful in case we have to modify it (e.g. fix typos). -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer ProfitBricks GmbH Greifswalder Str. 207 D - 10405 Berlin Email: benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: https://www.profitbricks.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506 B Geschäftsführer: Achim Weiss, Matthias Steinberg
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