But it DOES build !!! Just now did same. Really. Honest 'injun. truly. AND
it DOES supply the "docs" package to the main program; gnucash-git. (Which
also builds and runs too.)

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 3:46 PM Marcell Meszaros <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It is not useful to keep a package that fails to build due to
> (make)depending on deprecated, unmaintained, broken package(s).
>
>
> On 19 December 2023 21:04:28 GMT+01:00, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> This should remain separate much as the gnucash version release and
>> gnucash-docs version release are separate in the extra repos. FURTHER, it
>> is up to date and does compile and work, as does gnucash-git.
>>
>> Best regards - Not_Anonymous
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 6:48 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge gnucash-docs-git [2] into
>>> gnucash-git [3]:
>>>
>>> Not useful to keep the broken pkgbase=gnucash-docs-git.
>>>
>>> It was last changed in 2015, and has been failing to build since at
>>> least 2020 due to makedepends=rarian's reported FTBFS that year, which
>>> persists to this day.
>>>
>>> But no one noticed. gnucash-docs-git has only 2 votes, and 1 comment
>>> from maintainer made in 2017.
>>>
>>> Extra repo has the latest stable gnucash and gnucash-docs.
>>>
>>> If the rolling 'git' docs is needed, it is best to enable it in the
>>> main gnucash-git's PKGBUILD. With this merge, it will become possible
>>> in the latter to create a split package with the same 'gnucash-docs-
>>> git' name.
>>>
>>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
>>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnucash-docs-git/
>>> [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnucash-git/
>>
>>

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