On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: > severity 848818 wishlist > close 848818 > > I'm not going to discuss this further - > > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > http://invisible-island.net/personal/changelogs.html#problem_hostile
It's been a while since I've had one of these arguments, but reviewing Policy 2.1 I agree. Failure to generate ctlseqs.* from ctlseqs.ms would be a GPL violation and thus a "serious" bug if: 1. The document were under the GPL; and 2. Debian didn't make the ctlseqs.ms and the requisite tools for generating its dervative forms available. ...but neither of those prerequisites is the case. That said, I think it would be _nice_ if a package produced all its generated forms of documentation from their source forms as part of the build process, and declared Build-Depends appropriately. This acts as a form of QA on documentation generation tool chains, which in my experience (in the case of XML/XSL) is as robust as a football pitch of egg shells. Thank God you've stuck with *roff. James Clark did such good work on GNU Roff. Something terrible happened to him. Regards, Branden
