[pkg-bacula-devel] bacula-docs wants bacula source to build

[Sven Hartge]

On 27.06.24 14:20, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
> Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de> writes:

>> I just discovered, to my general dismay, that the 13.0.4 documentation
>> seems to want the bacula source to build.
>>
>> It checks for version.h and refuses to go any further without it.
>>
>> I pushed my incomplete work so far, adapting the patches.
> 
> yes, it also embeds a modified version of latex2html (and a second older
> one). My idea was to remove them and not ship html documentation for the
> time being.

Why do they do this?

> It looks like I had a go at it in January, but all I did was to remove
> everything that shouldn't be in the sources (latex2html(-2016), pre-made stuff
> removed by make clean/distclean, ...), then stumbled over the version.h
> thing and gave up.
Yep, I probably had the same look on my face when finding out about that.

I wonder what exactly it uses and if we can just fake the source tree by 
monkey patching those parts in via quilt.

S°