From 1f2f2d0de108cc17616869f44f8549eeb8b26ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Florian=20M=C3=BCllner?= <fmuellner@gnome.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:55:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: Stop pre-generating man pages

The original asciidoc project is still stuck on python2, so on
distros that didn't switch to a fork (like Fedora), it pulls
in over 100M of legacy dependencies.

However we are about to move our man pages to reStructuredText
which doesn't have that issue, and which is already used for
GLib's and GTK's man pages.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3454>
---
 meson.build                             |  9 ++-------
 meson/generate-manpages.py              | 23 -----------------------
 subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build |  8 ++------
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 meson/generate-manpages.py

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index d80f33440..e5c40fdf4 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -132,12 +132,8 @@ else
 endif
 
 if get_option('man')
-  if fs.exists('man/gnome-shell.1')
-    install_man('man/gnome-shell.1')
-  else
-    a2x = find_program('a2x')
-    subdir('man')
-  endif
+  a2x = find_program('a2x')
+  subdir('man')
 endif
 
 mutter_typelibdir = mutter_dep.get_variable('typelibdir')
@@ -326,7 +322,6 @@ gnome.post_install(
   gtk_update_icon_cache: true
 )
 
-meson.add_dist_script('meson/generate-manpages.py')
 meson.add_dist_script('meson/generate-stylesheets.py')
 meson.add_dist_script('meson/check-version.py', meson.project_version(), 'NEWS')
 
diff --git a/meson/generate-manpages.py b/meson/generate-manpages.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e12df61b4..000000000
--- a/meson/generate-manpages.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import os
-from pathlib import PurePath
-import subprocess
-
-man_pages = [
-    'man/gnome-shell.1',
-    'subprojects/extensions-tool/man/gnome-extensions.1',
-]
-
-sourceroot = os.environ.get('MESON_SOURCE_ROOT')
-distroot = os.environ.get('MESON_DIST_ROOT')
-
-for man_page in man_pages:
-    page_path = PurePath(man_page)
-    src = PurePath(sourceroot, page_path.with_suffix('.txt'))
-    dst = PurePath(distroot, page_path)
-    stylesheet = src.with_name('stylesheet.xsl')
-
-    subprocess.call(['a2x', '--xsl-file', os.fspath(stylesheet),
-      '--format', 'manpage', '--destination-dir', os.fspath(dst.parent),
-      os.fspath(src)])
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build b/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build
index 572e3edd0..7ae2cf14b 100644
--- a/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build
@@ -47,12 +47,8 @@ if bash_completion.found()
 endif
 
 if get_option('man')
-  if fs.exists('man/gnome-extensions.1')
-    install_man('man/gnome-extensions.1')
-  else
-    a2x = find_program('a2x')
-    subdir('man')
-  endif
+  a2x = find_program('a2x')
+  subdir('man')
 endif
 
 if not meson.is_subproject()