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

[Rob Whitlock <rwhitlock22%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On Aug 1, 2025, at 2:25 PM, Thomas Klausner via gnats <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 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>
> Cc: 
> 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

I believe libnotify requires the patch in the link as well as a dependency
on wip/docbook-xsl-ns. Is that package ready for import?