From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:55:53 -0700 Message-ID: <7vljql4586.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090323195304.GC26678@macbook.lan> <20090324031448.GA12829@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090330223646.GC68118@macbook.lan> <20090331112812.GA2090@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090331194056.GA23102@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Heiko Voigt , Chris Johnsen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 01 01:57:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lonpm-00089N-UK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:57:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762774AbZCaX4I (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759816AbZCaX4H (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:07 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:55824 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753522AbZCaX4G (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:06 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939FDA6DD7; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1633EA6DD5; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:55:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20090331194056.GA23102@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:40:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7C6313C4-1E4F-11DE-A335-32B0EBB1AA3C-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King 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?