Control: reopen -1 Control: tags -1 - wontfix On 2016-12-21 05:39 +0000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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. Yes, that's considered best practice. Thus I'm re-opening the bug. Cheers, Sven
