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Re: [PATCH] doc: remove manpage-base-url workaround

From
Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2023, 01:24 UTC
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> Commit 50d9bbba92 (Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam,
> 2009-12-04) introduced manpage-base-url.xsl because ancient versions of
> xmlto did not have --stringparam.
> 
> However, that was more than ten years ago, no need for that complexity
> anymore, we can just use --stringparam.

Sounds good. The issue at the time was with xmlto older than ~ 0.20. It was known that 0.18 didn't work, which affected both openSUSE 11.2 and CentOS 5, as reported in https://lore.kernel.org/git/m2hbs85koj.fsf@igel.home/ and the following messages).

I wish I'd have included the details on which xmlto versions were affected in the commit message. The project was managed in SVN at the time and I can't (easily) find the source older than it's import to git around 0.21.

Not that it's important. It was already rather old versions of xmlto which were affected -- in 2009.

Thanks,
-- 
Todd
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  1. doc: remove manpage-base-url workaroundFelipe Contreras, Mar 22, 2023
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