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On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 11:08 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">It sounds like this scheme would result in man pages not being built by default, but they still are because it looks like we fallback on using the .man generated by the packager's 'make dist'</FONT></TT><BR>
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Yes, the tarball contains the .man files which will be "sed" into .3 files. The makefile is designed to abort if one tries to generate a tarball without running xmlto, so as not to distribute a tarball without the man pages.<BR>
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One side-effect for developers who work without xmlto is that they cannot run distcheck on a regular basis as a quality assurance measure as the makefile is designed to abort to prevent the creation of man-pageless tarballs.
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