Re: [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Going back to the original discussion, it looks like it is a workaround
for docbook-xsl 1.69.0:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/32957

Assuming that is correct, I think the sane choices are:

  1. drop the workaround, as that version of docbook-xsl is now several
     years old

     or

  2. turn the workaround off by default, but add a knob to turn it on
     (DOCBOOK_XSL_1690?)

Having it on by default and turning it off with a knob seems silly,
since most versions don't need it. Debian stable is shipping 1.73 these
days, which looks fine without 7ef0435. Are there other platforms still
shipping 1.69.0? Is it too old for us to care?

I am very tempted to say 1. but we seem to have a track record of trying
to be nice to people.  How involved would 2 be compared to 1?