> Regarding the brute force approach, good luck backporting the > build system changes 28 times (from 5.0 to 2.2), demonstrating > that the backport is correct and not missing any manuals in any > version, and then finding a machine that is still in working order, > able to run 2.2, and fast enough to do 28 production builds. > > That sure sounds like a horrific task.
Especially when one considers that in the past the tree used to contain many many more machine-dependent manual pages.
