# Which packages/versions are needed to build documentation

4 messages from 2005-11-09 to 2005-11-09. Participants: Alan Chandler, Simon Richter, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2412

## Alan Chandler, 2005-11-09 16:55

Subject: Which packages/versions are needed to build documentation
Message-ID: <200511091655.51093.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200511091655.51093.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk

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I have just downloaded git-core-0.99f

On my debian unstable system I can build the documentation just fine

On my debian sarge system it fails almost immediately

alan@roo:Documentation$ make
asciidoc -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf git-add.txt
WARNING: non-standard xhtml11 backend
FAILED: incomplete configuration files
make: *** [git-add.html] Error 1
alan@roo:Documentation$        



I've patched up asciidoc as per instructions.

Searching for a package (dpkg -S xhtmll) that uses anything to do with xhtml11 
shows nothing on Sarge, and shows asciidoc (and some other things, like 
quanta and mozilla) on debian unstable.  I assume therefore its just a 
version issue of asciidoc, although I am confused because the note about 
patching asciidoc assumes you had 6.0.3 installed - which is what debian 
sarge has. 
-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

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## Simon Richter, 2005-11-09 17:24

Subject: Re: Which packages/versions are needed to build documentation
Message-ID: <437230C1.3090700@debian.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/437230C1.3090700%40debian.org
In-Reply-To: <200511091655.51093.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

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Hi,

> On my debian sarge system it fails almost immediately

Just take the asciidoc package from unstable, last time I looked it had 
no dependencies that were unfulfillable from sarge.

    Simon

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## Junio C Hamano, 2005-11-09 18:22

Subject: Re: Which packages/versions are needed to build documentation
Message-ID: <7vr79pfzpa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vr79pfzpa.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <200511091655.51093.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

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Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> I have just downloaded git-core-0.99f
>
> On my debian unstable system I can build the documentation just fine
>
> On my debian sarge system it fails almost immediately

The debs on kernel.org were done in a chrooted sarge environment
(vanilla + security) with one exception: asciidoc 7.

I tried to make the documentation usable with asciidoc 6 as
well, but it turns out that not having xhtml11 is the least of
the problems with version 6 (see my message the other day).

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## Alan Chandler, 2005-11-09 18:49

Subject: Re: Which packages/versions are needed to build documentation
Message-ID: <200511091849.44362.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200511091849.44362.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk
In-Reply-To: <437230C1.3090700@debian.org>

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On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 17:24, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On my debian sarge system it fails almost immediately
>
> Just take the asciidoc package from unstable, last time I looked it had
> no dependencies that were unfulfillable from sarge.
>
>     Simon

Thanks - working now - although I needed to also install xmlto


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

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