man apt

[Neo-Oli]

Can we package the man page for apt?

[kb-1000]

No actions since many months... please do something!

[ghost]

No actions since many months... please do something!

Because manpage cannot be built for unknown reason. I tried to install necessary tools but no success.
Will be okay if I just copy apt 1.4.x manpage from somewhere ?

[kb-1000]

I think I've seen something in the build.sh of apt, but I don't remember anymore

[kb-1000]

[ghost]

This is done intentionally to prevent build error.

[kb-1000]

Which error? Got any log?

[ghost]

CMake Error at CMake/Documentation.cmake:44 (message):
  Could not find docbook xsl
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  doc/CMakeLists.txt:1 (include)

This error happens even if docbook and docbook-xsl are installed.
And no matter if build is done for Termux or for host.

[kb-1000]

🤔 hmmm...
Is it possible to build apt on-device? I might try to find a solution

[ghost]

I might try to find a solution

Other solution is to just copy manpage from somewhere.
Intresting, that I can't find anything about problems with docbook in CMakeOutput.log or CMakeError.log.

[ghost]

Now I know why it fails:

find_path(DOCBOOK_XSL manpages/docbook.xsl
         # Debian
         /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl
         /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh
         # OpenSUSE
         /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current
         # Arch
          /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets
         # Fedora
         /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets
         # Fink
         ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl
         # FreeBSD
         ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/xsl/docbook/
         NO_DEFAULT_PATH)

if(NOT DOCBOOK_XSL)
    message(FATAL_ERROR "Could not find docbook xsl")
endif()

Some of these paths are outdated and no longer valid. So cmake will fail in most cases.

[kb-1000]

I'd probably have found it too if I had enough time...
But great that I asked about it so that you could find it ;-)