Remove PDF-related bits from the build system

[Crist Clark]

https://bind.readthedocs.io/_/downloads/en/v9.18.21/pdf/


On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 9:59 AM Fred Morris <m3047 at m3047.net> wrote:

> (Intentionally posting to the mailing list with that string since that
> was the commit message where it occurred. Hopefully this will improve
> findability.)
>
> So, yeah.
>
> I'll take your word for it that Read The Docs can generate PDFs. I'd
> appreciate your promise that it generated the version of the doc which
> is here: https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.18.21/doc/arm/Bv9ARM.pdf
> We could talk about the difference in presentation between the HTML and
> PDF versions, but it's a matter of taste.
>
> Is this free, and where are the instructions?
>
> According to the commit
> (
> https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/561a83a29182b00bda9237ae30343d76a68dcdf4
> )
> you removed "PDF-related bits" from not just the build system, but from
> the documentation itself! You removed the instructions that are in the
> commit message itself! If your intention was to remove it from the build
> system, you went too far.
>
> I looked for this just the other day in the KB. At the least you should
> have a KB article. At least there's this post to the mailing list.
>
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