Re: pkg/59566: sysutils/libnotify has mangled manpage

["Thomas Klausner via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/59566; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/59566: sysutils/libnotify has mangled manpage
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 20:24:30 +0200

 On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 02:21:16PM -0400, Rob Whitlock wrote:
 > notify-send.1 requires Docbook 5.0 and textproc/docbook only provides
 > Docbook 4.5. Is Docbook 4.5 able to process Docbook 5.0 documents?
 > 
 > I found this on the libnotify gitlab page:
 > 
 > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libnotify/-/merge_requests/46/diffs?commit_id=a392f3ef205bd8d8f2fa0e298a869d8abc481728
 > 
 > which says that libnotify requires the XSL stylesheet that supports
 > namespaces and that using the stylesheet that does not support
 > namespaces results in a broken manual page. The distfile currently
 > used in pkgsrc for libnotify does not use the stylesheet with
 > namespaces. Namespace support was introduced in Docbook 5.0.
 > 
 > Does this mean that the libnotify package requires Docbook 5.0,
 > or is Docbook 4.5 able to process Docbook 5.0 documents somehow?
 
 I have no clue about that. I just know that docbook-xsl has a distfile
 called docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2 and I guess "nons" means "no
 namespace".
  Thomas