<div dir="auto">FWIW, I did merge the previously queued "small PRs", now probably gotta figure out what Greg found with pkgsrc's `sed` (or await his PR with a fix that would work everywhere - can't reproduce the problem so far), and planned changes will be done.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If there's something to clarify about dcs - PRs are always welcome, though not sure this would hold up a release.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regarding `configure --with-doc(s)` and related options -- there indeed is a big can of worms due to portability and tools availability and standard expectations.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">TLDR summary of decades-long history, legacy and recent:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On one hand, a build is expected to deliver man pages. Historically *roff files were directly edited and served by projects; nowadays it is asciidoc or similar, rendered into man pages as one of many output formats. Dist tarballs include those page files so they can be installed even where asciidoc renderer is not available. So some options manage this part.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Another issue is the codes assigned to man page sections in different OSes - this was previously bolted to what is seen in Linux and FreeBSD; now can be amended for package builds (especially on other platforms), to avoid clumsy distro-specific patch files or scripts in their recipes.</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And another aspect regards other rendering formats (HTML*, PDF).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope this helps,</div><div dir="auto">Jim Klimov</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 1, 2025, 10:19 Jim Klimov <<a href="mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut@gmail.com">jimklimov+nut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello all,</div><div><br></div><div> Due to some issues uncovered with NUT v2.8.3 release on one hand (fixable, but cumbersome for packagers to extract and patch in their recipes), and an upcoming hiatus due to vacation travels on another, I've pushed much of the more-ambitious plan slated for NUT v2.8.4 back to v2.8.5, and plan to release what has cropped up until now as a smaller v2.8.4 increment, just a few months after a preceding release. This is probably how things should be (aiming for smaller quicker releases), too :)</div><div><br></div><div> Even so, it is by no means a trivial hot-fixing release - there were many contributions that have already landed, including new drivers, updates to existing drivers and other programs, recipes, CI tests, etc.</div><div><br></div><div> While a few smaller PRs are still queued and iterated, it would be wise of the community to run some builds of the current master against their devices in their OS ecosystems of choice, to make sure we do not get big facepalms within a week after a release :)</div><div><br></div><div> The plan is to cut off a snapshot of the `master` branch (slightly pre-doctored as usual) into a NUT v2.8.4 release, and so begin the v2.8.5 timeline, during the first week of August, probably before next Friday. Or forever hold our silence (that is, until September or later).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jim Klimov</div><div><br></div></div>
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