[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Drop comments from extension build, and drop requirement of docbook for regress testing

[Regina Obe]

> We have a build and regress requirement of Docbook for basic regression
testing.
> This became painfully obvious to me with the upgrade to docbook5 when all
our
> bots broke, and my system I can no longer regress test.
> 
> The main dependency sadly is because of the help comments included in the
> extension builds. These bring in a docbook and xsltproc dependency.
> 
> I'd like to drop comments from the extension builds with the intention of
also not
> requiring docbook anything to regression test.
> 
> 1) The comments can be still be generated by Debbie and packaged in
tarball for
> those who want to use them and also available on the website as loose sql
files
> for easy install.
> 2) We can maybe have a test that tries to install comments (just for those
bots
> who have docbook), so that we can still catch those issues with people
> misdocumenting new features.
> 3) The garden tests will still require docbook, so those bots we have
running those
> will still require docbook.
> 
> Other bots I expect should not need docbook at all to test.
> 
> +1
> 

I forgot to mention, if you have comments on the topic (no pun intended),
please put them also on the 
Ticket: https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5536