Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-24 Thread Holger Wansing
[ Sending this to #932957 as well, as it contains valueable info on that topic ] Jeremy Stanley wrote (Wed, 24 May 2023 18:22:09 +): > On 2023-05-24 19:40:56 +0200 (+0200), Agathe Porte wrote: > [...] > > Maybe the idea was to introduce %OLD_RELEASE_NAME% and to call sed to > > replace this

Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-24 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2023-05-24 19:40:56 +0200 (+0200), Agathe Porte wrote: [...] > Maybe the idea was to introduce %OLD_RELEASE_NAME% and to call sed to > replace this kind of strings in a build step, and not rely on sphinx > substitution at all. > > I know that I have done this a few times and it works fine as a

Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-24 Thread Agathe Porte
Hi, 2023-05-20 23:36 CEST, Holger Wansing: > Hi, > > RL wrote (Sat, 20 May 2023 12:52:25 > +0100): > > Holger Wansing writes: > > > > > However, I may have some objections against the migration at all: > > > as far as I know, sphinx/reStructuredText is still lacking some > > > functionality, >

Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, RL wrote (Sat, 20 May 2023 12:52:25 +0100): > Holger Wansing writes: > > > However, I may have some objections against the migration at all: > > as far as I know, sphinx/reStructuredText is still lacking some > > functionality, > > which is heavily used in the release-notes. > > That is t

Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-20 Thread RL
Holger Wansing writes: > However, I may have some objections against the migration at all: > as far as I know, sphinx/reStructuredText is still lacking some functionality, > which is heavily used in the release-notes. > That is the use of substitutions within URLs. > In docbook speach these were

Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-18 Thread Holger Wansing
[[ debian-devel in CC, to get a wider audience regarding reStructuredText ]] Hi, I worked on this recently, and I have something like a prototype ready. It can be found (as html) at https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/release-notes_sphinx/ while the git repo containing the migration is at https:/