Hello, On Sat 25 Jan 2025 at 06:52pm +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> Hmm. Do we actually have any duplicate filenames? > > Not currently, but we'll do. For the documents that are currently > split in chapters on output, we'd have ch1, ch2, and index duplicates: > > $ dpkg -L debian-policy | grep -E '\.html/(index|ch[0-9])' > >> I'd prefer to leave them in the root until and unless we actually have >> any duplicates. We don't gain new filenames often. > > See above. Okay, thanks. >> > - While going over the build system I found several seemingly unused >> > or obsolete things which I've removed, such as dblatex support, >> > and support for the html.tar generation. While neither seem to be >> > used, I'm not sure whether you want to preserve the support for >> > the latter in case the intention was to enable this again in the >> > future? >> >> I think we'd need to go case-by-case. > > Right, perhaps I should just start sending patches for stuff like this > already, it might make discussing things more concretely easier. Yes, sure. >> For example, dblatex can obviously go once there is no docbook-xml left. > > dblatex does not appear used currently (there was a commit removing its > use), even with the Docbook-XML toolchain. Ah, I see. >> I'm not sure what the html.tar is; can you say more? > > ISTR the debian-policy binary package might have shipped the SGML and > then the XML sources as an html.tar.gz, but this got disabled at some > point, so these are not shipped any longer in the .deb. But the build > system still generates them. > > (The changes already have commit refs for when these got disabled.) Okay. Sounds like just an oversight, then. -- Sean Whitton
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