From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:24:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: remove manpage-base-url workaround
Message-ID: <ZBpY2LcoRMDYVJVw@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230322000815.132128-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 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