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Re: [PATCH 6/6] INSTALL: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 30, 2020, 09:26 UTC
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<20200330092612.GA1735224@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<090ef11aec0476395935acf26c4072617ef1e6f2.1585486103.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 03:18:10PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
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> Several of the previous commits have been bumping the minimum supported
> version of docbook-xsl and dropping various workarounds. Most recently,
> we made the minimum be 1.73.0.
> 
> In INSTALL, we claim that with 1.73, one needs a certain patch in
> contrib/patches/. There is no such patch. It was added in 2ec39edad9
> ("INSTALL: add warning on docbook-xsl 1.72 and 1.73", 2007-08-03) and
> dropped in 9721ac9010 ("contrib: remove continuous/ and patches/",
> 2013-06-03).

Perhaps nobody asking about the missing patch since 2013 should be a hint that nobody cares about these old versions. :)

> Rather than resurrecting version 1.73 and the patch and testing them,
> just raise our minimum supported docbook-xsl version to 1.74.
Makes sense.
-Peff
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Message 8 of 16 in “Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74”
  1. 0/6 Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74Martin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  2. 1/6 Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.71.1Martin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  3. 2/6 Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.72.0Martin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  4. 3/6 Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.73.0Martin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  5. 4/6 manpage-bold-literal.xsl: stop using git.docbook.backslashMartin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  6. 5/6 manpage-normal.xsl: fold in manpage-base.xslMartin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  7. 6/6 INSTALL: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74Martin Ågren, Mar 29, 2020
  8. Jeff KingMar 30, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2020
  10. Jeff KingMar 30, 2020
  11. Martin ÅgrenMar 31, 2020
  12. Jeff KingApr 1, 2020
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2020
  14. brian m. carlsonApr 2, 2020
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2020
  16. brian m. carlsonMar 30, 2020

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