From: Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject: Re: Actual path to html files inside fontconfig's man
To: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@openbsd.org>, OpenBSD tech <tech@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:31:46 +0100

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:34:59 +0200,
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:58:45 +0200,
> Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 01:52:53AM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > > tech@,
> > > 
> > > In the Russian-speaking telegram user group, a user with the nickname .sυλ
> > > 89.54.17 discovered that fc-cache(1) has the wrong path.
> > > 
> > > Here is the diff that fixes the paths for all of fontconfig's man
> > > pages.
> > 
> > Sorry, but no. fontconfig is externally maintained and we try to keep
> > the number of local changes as small as possible to minimize the
> > burden of merging upgrades.
> >
> > Moreover the *roff sources are generated from the sgml files. So one
> > way to solve this is to send an upstream pull request to make the
> > sgml file use some kind of variable expansion at build time to set the
> > proper path for the fontconfig install prefix and use that.
> > 
> > Then we could merge this and regenerate the roff sources on upgrades.
> 
> I'll take care on prepare patch for upstream.
> 

Upstream decided to move by simpler way and had replaced path to urls:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/61a9347d9607d47af32f54d244dcf2692d975b0e

-- 
wbr, Kirill