Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add capnproto.

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 07:30:10PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> > By the way, I noticed some other distros include a man page for
> > capnproto. Can you look into doing something similar for us?
> 
> Nice find! I guess we can pull the one from Debian. From capnp.1.xml:
> 
>       <para>This manual page was written for the Debian system
>         (and may be used by others).</para>
> 
> Not sure how to add it though, are there other packages with multiple
> sources that can be used as reference?

Yes, check the Git package definition for an example of pulling sources
from multiple locations. The git-manpages are distributed as a separate
tarball, and fetched directly from (native-inputs).

Although, I'm not sure how much I like downloading the man page from
Debian. There's nothing explicitly  wrong with it, but I'd rather not
pepper our package definitions with references to random files scattered
across the internet. Other opinions requested on this subject :)

I had hoped the documentation could be built from the capnproto source
or downloading from the capnproto project.

Maybe capnproto can be convinced to adopt Debian's manpage.

> Also, Gentoo apparently decouples gtest by two `sed` commands and
> triggering `autoreconf`. I will try that too.

Great, I look forward to hearing the results!