Hello Nicholas, On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > From what I've gathered (IIRC), upstream generates the .texi from the > .org with the assistance of doc/ivy-ox.el, and additionally requires > org-mode to be installed as a build-dep.
Org-mode is bundled with Emacs! The org-mode package just installs a newer version, which you probably won't need. > I would like to defer this issue in the form of a bug filed against > emacs-ivy-doc, and continue using makeinfo ivy.texi for now, because > it insures that builds are reproducible. AFAIK this course of action > doesn't go against Policy. Of course if it ever results in something > aberrant then I'll be forced to fix it then... If I've followed the discussion correctly, this would be fine. > Alternatively I'd be happy to add this to the list of things I'll work > on during Debcamp. Btw, should I summarise these in few points on the > pkg-emacsen wiki page? I'm not sure what you want to summarise... but it's a wiki, so you are welcome to edit it. > At present muse-el is unreproducible because generates documentation > through a similar internal mechanism (IIRC), but in this case I have > no choice but to try to fix it... and if reproducible builds are > required for Buster and I fail at this then muse-el will be dropped. I'm pretty sure it will not be a hard requirement, but thank you for taking it into account during your packaging work. -- Sean Whitton
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