From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:26:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] INSTALL: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74
Message-ID: <20200330092612.GA1735224@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <090ef11aec0476395935acf26c4072617ef1e6f2.1585486103.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 03:18:10PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:

> 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