"make status" is broken

Bug #1180448 reported by Doug Smythies
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Server Guide
Fix Released
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Doug Smythies

Bug Description

The build option to compile a status report is broken. It gives up in an initial copy step becuase /libs/*css no longer exists.
That part should be easy to fix, although I have not looked into it yet.
The bigger question, I think, is: Does anybody use the status stuff? The page referred to from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/Checking
"Advanced" area does not even exist and I have never heard of anybody using the "status" tags as a reference for what to do.

So: Should this be fixed, or deleted as a build option?

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Doug Smythies (dsmythies) wrote :

As far as I have been able to figure out "make status" never could have worked.
I think "make style" should be deleted, as it is only used by "make status", and while it is easy to fix there is no point.
With a fixed "make style", "make status" still fails because no style sheet is specified for the first step, nor included in serverguide.xml. The error:

compilation error: file serverguide/C/serverguide.xml line 10 element book
xsltParseStylesheetProcess : document is not a stylesheet
warning: failed to load external entity "build/status/sg-report.xml"
unable to parse build/status/sg-report.xml
make: *** [status] Error 6

I looked at the entire history for serverguide.xml and could not see that there was ever a version where this might have worked.

I think "make status" should just be deleted also. All the status lines in every document are "review" anyhow.

Changed in serverguide:
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Doug Smythies (dsmythies)
Changed in serverguide:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in serverguide:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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