[Pkg-shadow-devel] Rebuilding the manpages from XML at build time?

[Christian Perrier]

During the cleanout of the Debian patches I had to do for 4.0.12
builds, I completely removed the patches we made for the same changes
both in the XML files and the generated man pages files.

I kept these changes ONLY in the XML files.

As a consequence, because man pages are not rebuilt during shadow
build, the changes do NOT go in the Debian package. This is quiet
bad...

So, imho, we have two solutions:

-include a rebuild of the man pages while building the Debian package

-convince Tomasz that rebuilding the man pages at build time would be
 a good idea

I personnally favor the latter, which will minimize the risks of
outdated man pages...

Comments?


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