From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663C6C2D0EB for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DAF205ED for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (3072-bit key) header.d=crustytoothpaste.net header.i=@crustytoothpaste.net header.b="ph5YI6Da" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729515AbgC3KqN (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:46:13 -0400 Received: from injection.crustytoothpaste.net ([192.241.140.119]:36740 "EHLO injection.crustytoothpaste.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729290AbgC3KqN (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:46:13 -0400 Received: from camp.crustytoothpaste.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:b978:101:b610:a2f0:36c1:12e3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by injection.crustytoothpaste.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 740DE6077B; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:46:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=crustytoothpaste.net; s=default; t=1585565171; bh=gWKeDUwerHyeiDjegmBWYzn6gzKBSgvkau5DKAIAA14=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Content-Type: Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:From:Reply-To:Subject:Date:To:CC: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:Content-Disposition; b=ph5YI6DaD1L3xVDOjm0GOlVoQZHGLvjxZ74H3leMLfBl/qVXctPPutVggyaKJVS73 z4n5UdTf0y+HyN+NuXlvnV+Dlv5kvaz5kNcjQ0I2okDyETILVDCQes+RQU05zvI86b az14faxCpxGFwnS8w4iy925616JBDNYxStZ6EJF5Ku3+JBKjUF8DZ6igpZguGx7+yq T1V8mOM2pEFn4ChV2ure9/lIkKz6l2z9aZUTL5Lmwta3Nl03Uaw95VtLhtKk/7N96w JFzD+zZLswraihE0Y/gGTCwBzb1orngNi/2BCcsUSNZLhCdDhXIv7ofONtWlY80pZg lGLHMaIYplokEtWuwfbAXrnmquUuAdiRrYfFiZIPWIE/Dr3i3L0EwZidAeg3atmnb8 5Py+jm0xflZIwgFraA4tIuWW3br2KkpaGon+aHdcyur1Z1C+wpajO1LGu4mVxNZWqF FkpYNP3BLVyWcOWZi26abH/6vXhUOG/EoDKi1eI1NrCtB70BEBL Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:46:05 +0000 From: "brian m. carlson" To: Martin =?utf-8?B?w4VncmVu?= Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74 Message-ID: <20200330104605.GA6595@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> Mail-Followup-To: "brian m. carlson" , Martin =?utf-8?B?w4VncmVu?= , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Machine: Running on camp using GNU/Linux on x86_64 (Linux kernel 5.4.0-4-amd64) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2020-03-29 at 13:18:04, Martin =C3=85gren wrote: > In the documentation Makefile and a few helper conf and xsl files, we > carry various workarounds to make the docs build at all or to look > better with older docbook-xsl versions. Let's see if we can't just drop > that support. All of this seems to have been useful at one point, but I > doubt that anyone needs this nowadays. This was also suggested in [1]. >=20 > The final commit in this series bumps the minimum required version of > docbook-xsl to 1.74.0, which is from June 2008. The whole series should > be a no-op unless you're on an older release than that. That said, I've > only tested this with the version that comes with my OS, 1.79.1. >=20 > After this series, user-manual.conf still refers to older docbook-xsl > versions. The proper fix there might be to actually be a bit more > aggressive and drop that hunk, making the rendered docs prettier. > There's some history there, including mentions of texinfo, which is > outside my comfort zone. I've got work in progress there, but I'd rather > submit that separately from these "expected no-op" patches. This seems sane to me and I'm all for dropping support for a twelve-year-old version of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. On the odd chance that someone did need to download a newer version, this is a dependency that's easy to set up and build. --=20 brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.2.20 (GNU/Linux) iHUEABYKAB0WIQQILOaKnbxl+4PRw5F8DEliiIeigQUCXoHN7QAKCRB8DEliiIei gavUAQDt+vMXbXnsc/rToT7zS+JWzv+vJ/mhDUCH1KvlwujkfwEAzYUQuDeKCjB5 UWL8Bk+SNnvt+G6rtd006/lVDJIvpQ4= =Knma -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--