Defining default apps as serialized GVariants isn't very human-friendly,
which likely contributes to the fact that the lists are in parts horribly
outdated (Books! Cheese! Screenshot! gedit!).
Instead, generate the lists at build time from simple text files, which
should be much easier to update.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3632>
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>
We currently just call sassc, but don't check its return value. That
means as long as sassc is available, the script (and therefore the
newly added dist CI job) will succeed.
Make sure we fail on failure.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1974>
Since commit 9ef9a5ff8a, man pages are generated at dist time to reduce
build dependencies when building from a released tarball.
Do the same for the stylesheets to also remove the sassc dependency.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1555>
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>
This is what most GNOME modules now use instead of a shell script,
which makes sense given that the build system itself is written
in python.
This particular copy comes from nautilus ...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/920
Package managers usually take care of compiling GSettings schemas and
updating the .desktop database on installation, but when building
manually from source, we should perform the aforementioned actions
ourselves.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/127
