On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 15:52 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 3/26/19 3:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 19:33 +0000, Aaron Bauman wrote:
> > > commit:     2e32186bbee30a4a2e1c4f37c79c61897e53d8df
> > > Author:     Michael Mair-Keimberger <m.mairkeimberger <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
> > > AuthorDate: Tue Mar 26 19:28:48 2019 +0000
> > > Commit:     Aaron Bauman <bman <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
> > > CommitDate: Tue Mar 26 19:32:52 2019 +0000
> > > URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2e32186b
> > > 
> > > app-doc/eclass-manpages: remove unused file
> > > 
> > 
> > Cool.  It figures life's gonna be much easier now that we don't have
> > the tool to generate those manpages.

First of all, I'm sorry, this wasn't supposed to go to -dev.  I removed
-commits but failed to notice -dev appended somewhere as well.

> 
> In their defense, that package is structured ridiculously.

Yep, guess who did it.

>  We certainly
> shouldn't be using $FILESDIR as the source control repository for the
> shell/awk scripts that generate the man pages. If anything, they belong
> in their own package, with their own "upstream" project/repository. The
> eclass-manpages package would then (build-) depend on the scripts -- at
> least for -9999 version that builds them on the fly.

I was thinking about doing this for quite some time.  Never found enough
motivation though.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny