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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92ECC19F2A for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232624AbiG3Upr (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:45:47 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56414 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231281AbiG3Upq (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:45:46 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x335.google.com (mail-wm1-x335.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::335]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08A2CB7EB for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm1-x335.google.com with SMTP id b21-20020a05600c4e1500b003a32bc8612fso3913444wmq.3 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:45:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:subject:from:cc:to:content-language :user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id:from:to:cc; bh=YAUgdaTe92Y5N3ZpbHTHvcLWCDy7R1BPutaj54NF8V4=; b=gVg1R218Kzb0mtkbKbdrJ1JmT5imvbwyDrGzwEihqVryKMLn0lI9Twa+kART+CxQxm qqZ0KSDKJMq/vNvhSmoKDh1sMqXZux1iXXHrfgZZNL40vzNduXC5euVK5xRQBtxYtiST lD9d9OU2zZjF6iK5+nBH+SZP5IDJJnA3OLSVuQB1/89/7ew5jQ5qXPXYko07jBZfr5Ar pT4CEXXZADux+W6a3Hl2lmEiZ5cwLblYUNzSVJ68LTuN9X7seOloPEC3PPi2/Y0562Wc LDx3szdCrvcrYvaFP7rKChWWdWtN1/CtYVbXfUAqPTpZJ91HhIniMt8DgXIAcsMHtQS/ YTvA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:subject:from:cc:to:content-language :user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id:x-gm-message-state:from:to :cc; bh=YAUgdaTe92Y5N3ZpbHTHvcLWCDy7R1BPutaj54NF8V4=; b=UUiEepwNBiXG3g0Jg7sw9hI0t5JO5kGTsaRyfxrgSXmcVUU/rp4iwcVmYP78Nx/RLB vUVgPO5ZxhYaFtyplp8vpzZwMcMC6Te+4AV+o1mg6V7xhxGSe/qy6lAKqz+++NMNqV60 5Pm4f+qEHUKCoCvFRbGQiklt/HUobWdIK2voFfpCx7tBCRHdjrdoQwKJxKjEqslYyny3 h2+Lrx8PGA5w8akN9IN73thziK3aZDfQPbU8jVHLP3gzVJABgheVnWgRw7sekJC7m3an fWLcV9G4lT7a63Ney87pe56DRCPdNkCl8exBceRh/EB2q5afLuvS7TD0Oi9YAP6Wqxtz 7BKA== X-Gm-Message-State: AJIora/PhWguImQHF1uNRhKUDMj1r54J1r76KWKB1jMeqdo4UvcEJmNr fhYH1gWBFtL055jCHmswyvk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGRyM1sZpokLOMh5QuIHEJ3+E4Q/jd/96SPn/3jnW1w3vXbEmJ2O9iTidxu6QWCdwsbUq8FDqz3+yw== X-Received: by 2002:a7b:cb4e:0:b0:3a2:f3b0:4233 with SMTP id v14-20020a7bcb4e000000b003a2f3b04233mr6382619wmj.50.1659213943617; Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.168.10.170] ([170.253.36.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o5-20020a05600c510500b003a2d6f26babsm9684384wms.3.2022.07.30.13.45.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 22:45:42 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 Content-Language: en-US To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: Ingo Schwarze , Groff , linux-man From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" Subject: .so colophon.man Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Branden, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to have a constant '.so man-pages-colophon.man' line at the end of all of the Linux man-pages, instead of appending a COLOPHON at every release. The man-pages-colophon.man file would be shiped together with the pages, and it would be created by `make dist`. I think it's unnecessary to provide a dummy file in the repo, right? I mean, .so is not like #include that would fail hard if the file doesn't exist. It will instead just continue, right? Do you think it would be a good idea? I was making the COLOPHON be part of the `make dist` command (to avoid having to generate it separately), and this would simplify things a lot. Not having to append to files controlled by make(1) would avoid having to rerun many recipes. Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/