(Replacing uploaders with bzip2@packages.debian.org)

El 21/07/19 a las 22:54, Mark Wielaard escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are two patches from Debian for the man page and manual.
> The first simply removes some odd blanks/formatting from bzip2.1.
> The second adds the --help option to the manual and man page.
> The last one adds generation of bzip2.txt and bzip2.1.preformatted
> to the Makefile, so they are freshly generated when doing a dist.
> 
> [PATCH 1/3] bzip2.1: remove blank spaces in man page and drop the
>             .PU macro
> [PATCH 2/3] Mention the --help command line option in the manual
> [PATCH 3/3] Add generation of bzip2.txt and bzip2.1.preformatted
>             to Makefile

Thanks for including them.

> Ideally the bzip2.1 man page itself would be generated from the
> manual.xml file. But I saw that on Debian even the pdf and html
> generation of the manual seem to fail.

Sorry, how do you see they fail? Maybe I am missing something, but those
files are not generated currently.

> Debian does have a
> xml-manual-escape.diff patch, which escape special characters in
> XML source of the manual' but that seems wrong to me. The special
> characters don't seem special in xml, only in the html. So when
> applied the characters get escaped twice. Does Debian regenerate
> the manual, and if so, does it do it differently than how it
> is done through the upstream xmlproc.sh script?

debian/rules calls docbook2x-texi to generate manual.texi.
I'll see if we can switch to xmlproc.sh. 

Thanks!

 -- Santiago