Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Support writing man pages in MarkDown

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:27:01PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.12.2017, 13:13 +0200 schrieb Leon Romanovsky:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:53:53AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > > > > Am Sonntag, den 24.12.2017, 14:03 +0200 schrieb Yishai Hadas:
> > > >
> > > > On 12/13/2017 12:59 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > > > pandoc is fairly widely available in the distros with the
> > > > > > notable
> > > > >
> > > > > problem that centos 6 and 7 can only get it from EPEL.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > There might be even a worse case scenario where pandoc may not
> > > > exist
> > > > as
> > > > a package to be installed, for example how about SLES OS ?
> > >
> > > The release tarball could contain pre-built man page. So in case
> > > the OS
> > > does provide pandoc to regenerate the man pages, the pre-built can
> > > be
> > > used.
> >
> > Why should OS be dependent on pandoc? IMHO all releases should
> > contain
> > pre-built man pages and they should be used without need to
> > regenerate
> > them at all.
>
> Debian's rule is to build everything from source where the source is in
> the preferred format for modification. So we will drop the pre-build
> man pages and build them from source - even if that would not be
> needed. This is useful in case we have to modify it (e.g. fix typos).

Thanks for the explanation.

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