On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:27:01PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > 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). Thanks for the explanation. > > -- > 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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