Re: [Lifelines-dev] Debian package for lifelines 3.0.59

[Felipe A. v. de W. (faw) <fe...@ca...>]

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On 05/28/2007 01:05 PM, dr...@ve... wrote:
> In response to two of your bugs:

	Thanks for the reply. :-)


> In message <465...@ca...>you write:
>> BUG: #405501 (lifelines-reports)
>> SUB: lifelines-reports: missing files for desc-tex2
>> URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405501
> 
> I updated the README file so that it matches what's being distributed
> in the lifelines distribution.  Apparently the original submission also 
> included some of the derived files that aren't redistributed.  Also
> at one point all the reports had the .ll extension added to them.

	Thanks. I'm tagging the bug as confirmed with upstream and
that a upload is pending to fix it.


>> BUG: #418347 (lifelines-doc)
>> SUB: PDF documentation cannot be opened (broken PDF)
>> URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418347
>>
> This is much more problematic.  The short response is I checked in your 
> changes for ll-reportmanual.xml.  However, I found that your change to
> ll-userguilde.xml made generation of the pdf on my fedora core 6 machine 
> break, so that change was not checked in.

	Ok. Nice to know that the ll-reportmanual.xml patch was
used. I don't know about the SV documentation for PDFs, I'm not
rebuilding them for Debian. I didn't edit the source because I
don't want to broke the encoding or make any mistakes on the
file.

	The ll-userguide is the trick one. The problem is the
'#' character, it was escaped in the original source but them
it didn't build, so I removed the space and it worked. It seems
strange to escape it in a different manner because of the way
XML consider special chars and entities.


> Historically, it seems that the xml translation process is rather fragile.
> It seems like everyone who has tried this has had to alter the xml to make
> it agreeable to their system.  For this reason, we include html and pdf
> versions of the documents - removing the requirement that the document 
> generation work everywhere.

	Yes, I was imagining that. But due the way Debian works,
we need to build the documentation. I think in the future and
considering this thread, it will be easier to spot such
situations. But I would like to compare versions between Debian
and Fedora and check the build procedure to try to find where
we can remove the difference to have an unified solution.


	I did a ./configure on the topdir, cd into docs, removed
the *.pdf and make. Only this, I'm using a pbuilder environment
(I also tried on my development machine), both complained.

	Here are the version used in sid:

	http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/docbook-utils
	http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/jadetex


	Jadetex is 3.13. If you can share with me the version
of software you used and the build logs, perhaps we can try
to find a common solution. ;)   It is a very small patch, I
can keep it on the package while we work on this.


	Kind regards,

- --
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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