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bug #38997: "@itemx must follow @item" is now an error

Submitted by:  Hilmar Preusse <hpreusse>
Submitted on:  Wed 15 May 2013 01:09:08 PM UTC  
 
Category: makeinfoRelease: 5.1
Priority: 5 - NormalSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NonePrivacy: Public
Open/Closed: ClosedAssigned to: None
Status: None

Sun 19 May 2013 05:24:02 PM UTC, comment #1:

Hi Hilmar - thanks for the suggestion. yeah, if we had to do it over, a warning would probably have been better to begin with. But since we have already released 5.0 and 5.1 with it being error, and the fixes are so trivial, I admit I'm not so inclined to revert it now. it's likely that little would be gained, as Stefano L says:

Reverting it to a warning likely means people will ignore it, and only fix their manuals (and/or complain on this list) when it's switched back to an error.

Best,
Karl

P.S. My recollection is that it wasn't purely theoretical concerns to suddenly make it an error, but that the actual output (Docbook maybe?) was affected, for the worse. Anyway ...

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Wed 15 May 2013 01:09:08 PM UTC, original submission:

Here in the DBTS we got bug #707195 (http://bugs.debian.org/707195).

The statement is that the warning "@itemx must follow @item" has been turned into an error between makeinfo 4.13 and 5.1. As there seem to be a few broken docs in the wild this breaks a few package builds in Debian.

Consider to revert that change back into a warning.

Thanks!

Hilmar Preusse <hpreusse>

 

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