It's as human-readable as asciidoc and produces the same results,
but the tooling is more widely supported. Also both GLib and GTK
switched to it for their man pages, so rst2man is already a
dependency of the platform.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3454>
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>
Replace deprecated functions with their direct replacements:
- dep.get_pkgconfig_variable() → dep.get_variable()
- prg.path() → prg.full_path()
- source/build_root() → project_source/build_root()
In one case we need meson.global_source_root() that was only
added in meson 0.58, so bump the requirement to that.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2077>
Like the mutter 40.alpha.1.1 release, we missed adjusting to a
GSettings schema move from g-s-d to gsettings-desktop-schemas,
resulting in an abort on startup with the latest released
gnome-settings-daemon.
The man pages don't change very often, but draw in both docbook and
asciidoc. The latter is particularly problematic, as some distros
still ship only a python2 version of the tool.
Address this by generating the man pages at dist time, and including
the result in the tarball.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1553>
I messed up and released 40.alpha at the same time as 3.38.2, when it's
supposed to be in January. In order to re-align with the schedule, change
the upcoming version to 40.alpha2 so we don't have to skip a release and
will be back on track in time of 40.beta.
