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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: What to test for 4.13?
From:       Ian Wadham <iandw.au () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-03-18 4:09:08
Message-ID: 37A18E18-E6E3-4349-97A5-1E0C8AFE51CD () gmail ! com
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Hi Luigi,

On 18/03/2014, at 10:17 AM, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Ian Wadham wrote:
>>   2. There has been trouble with meinproc4 in the past on MacPorts and so,
>>        if you ask for +docs versions of packages you get a whole lot of TeX
>>        type dependencies, IIUC.
>> 
>> [...]
>> Re +docs, if you are going to play a KDE Game you need to know the rules, so
>> you need the Handbooks, but on MacPorts you also get the API (internal) doco,
>> and you get all those dependencies.  I do not understand why, ATM.
>> 
>> I have posted about this on the MacPorts list, but it is an ongoing problem.  I have
>> been using meinproc4 daily on Apple OS X in the past weeks, as I composed
>> documentation for the 4.13 release of Palapeli and it has given me no problems
>> at all.  Maybe we need an effort to get to the bottom of this one, but where to start?
> 
> I'm pretty sure meinproc4 does not depend on anything tex-related. It depends
> on libxml, libxslt, docbook-xml and docbook-xslt. Could you please try to
> investigate a bit more about the reasons for this?

There is a long-standing bug-report re meinproc4 on Apple OS X and MacPorts:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261509

First reported 2010-12-29.  So far no response from KDE apart from
Jekyll Wu enquiring whether it is still a problem (2013-03-01).  Latest
post from MacPorts 2014-01-02.  MacPorts have also raised four
tickets re this on their own bug-reporting database.  Links to those
are in the comments on https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261509

Apparently it crashes randomly on one document or another during a
large install that calls for KDE documentation.

In amongst the MacPorts tickets is at least one backtrace.  I would like
to follow that up, but I cannot find the meinproc4 source code repository
anywhere in KDE Projects and a search comes up empty:
https://projects.kde.org/search?projects=1&q=meinproc4

Luigi, can you tell me where, in the source-code tree, meinproc4 is?
Also, is there a maintainer for it?  If so, who is he or she?  Bug 261509
is still at UNCONFIRMED status after four years and the only people on
the mailing list for it are four guys from MacPorts.  Its auto assignment is
to kdelibs-bugs@kde.org

Cheers, Ian W.

P.S. Aha! I just now found meinproc under kdelibs/.../kdoctools. And hey, are
*you* the maintainer, Luigi? … :-)  Can you and I see if we can nail this one?


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