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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:55:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljql4586.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090331194056.GA23102@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:40:56 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Going back to the original discussion, it looks like it is a workaround
> for docbook-xsl 1.69.0:
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/32957
>
> Assuming that is correct, I think the sane choices are:
>
>   1. drop the workaround, as that version of docbook-xsl is now several
>      years old
>
>      or
>
>   2. turn the workaround off by default, but add a knob to turn it on
>      (DOCBOOK_XSL_1690?)
>
> Having it on by default and turning it off with a knob seems silly,
> since most versions don't need it. Debian stable is shipping 1.73 these
> days, which looks fine without 7ef0435. Are there other platforms still
> shipping 1.69.0? Is it too old for us to care?

I am very tempted to say 1. but we seem to have a track record of trying
to be nice to people.  How involved would 2 be compared to 1?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-23 19:53 [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Heiko Voigt
2009-03-23 20:33 ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
2009-03-30 22:17   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31  5:36     ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
2009-03-31 16:22       ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 16:53         ` [PATCH] cvsimport: Add a note about crlf options to the documentation Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 17:10         ` [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
2009-03-24  3:14 ` Jeff King
2009-03-30 22:36   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31  0:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-31 16:45       ` [PATCH] Cleanup warning about known issues in cvsimport documentation Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 19:49         ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 20:24           ` [PATCH v2] " Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 11:28     ` [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Jeff King
2009-03-31 19:40       ` Jeff King
2009-03-31 23:55         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-01  8:50           ` [PATCH] Documentation: use "spurious .sp" XSLT if DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP is set Chris Johnsen
2009-04-01 10:14             ` Jeff King
2009-04-02  5:25               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-01 10:34             ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 12:19               ` Chris Johnsen
2009-04-01 13:06                 ` Jeff King

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