Re: Make documentation builds reproducible

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 01:23, Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech> wrote:
>
> On Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 2:30 PM CDT, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Tristan Partin" <tristan@neon.tech> writes:
> > > On Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 2:24 PM CDT, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >> Somewhere at PGCon, I forgot exactly where, maybe in the same meeting
> > >> where we talked about getting rid of distprep, we talked about that the
> > >> documentation builds are not reproducible (in the sense of
> > >> https://reproducible-builds.org/).  This is easily fixable,
> >
> > > Is there anything I am missing? Is Postgres relying on releases older
> > > than snapshot-2018-12-07-01? If so, is it possible to up the minimum
> > > version?
> >
> > AFAICT the "latest stable release" of docbook-xsl is still 1.79.2,
> > which seems to have been released in 2017, so it's unsurprising that
> > it's missing this fix.
> >
> > It's kind of hard to argue that developers (much less distro packagers)
> > should install unsupported snapshot releases in order to build our docs.
> > Having said that, maybe we should check whether this patch is compatible
> > with those snapshot releases, just in case somebody is using one.
>
> I agree with you. Thanks for the pointer.

I'm seeing that there has been no activity in this thread for nearly 5
months, I'm planning to close this in the current commitfest unless
someone is planning to take it forward.

Regards,
Vignesh