Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.4

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 3, 2009, 17:43 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20091203150323.GI23717@inocybe.localdomain>

Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:

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> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>>> Andreas Schwab venit, vidit, dixit 03.12.2009 13:03:
>>> xmlto version 0.0.18
> [...]
>> Now that predates Git quite a bit (2004-01-21)...
>> I think we can require at least 0.0.20, which is in Debian Lenny and
>> Fedora 9, for example. I think that should have it. (I'm not sure, they
>> don't use a proper vcs ;) ).
>
> xmlto-0.0.18 is what's in RHEL/CentOS 5.  It would be nice to be able
> to build git docs there, which works pretty well in general (I
> believe).
>
> I built 1.6.6.rc1 on CentOS 5.4 last night with Junio's first patch
> for this, which only called --stringparam if MAN_BASE_URL was set.

I did the second one after seeing that both my Debian box and the k.org machine that manpages tarballs are made (FC11 IIRC) had that option, and my impression has been that it usually is safe to say "even Debian has it, and there wouldn't be many things older than that distro", but that is apparently not true.

Either we require 0.0.20 or we revert the tip one on this topic. I think the latter is a safe thing to do.

Thanks for a quick report and analysis.