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

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de> writes:

> On 27.06.24 14:20, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:

>> 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?

They added some customizations for a bacula style IIRC.

>> 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.

Probably.

 - Carsten