Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: kerneldoc-preamble: Test xeCJK.sty before loading

[Jonathan Corbet]

Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Jon,
>
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:53:57 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On distros whose texlive packaging is fine-grained, texlive-xecjk
>> can be installed/removed independently of other texlive packages.
>> Conditionally loading xeCJK depending only on the existence of the
>> "Noto Sans CJK SC" font might end up in xelatex error of
>> "xeCJK.sty not found!".
>> 
>> Improve the situation by testing existence of xeCJK.sty before
>> loading it.
>> 
>> This is useful on RHEL 9 and its clone distros where texlive-xecjk
>> doesn't work at the moment due to a missing dependency [1].
>> "make pdfdocs" for non-CJK contents should work after removing
>> texlive-xecjk.
> In hindsight, I think this qualifies as a stable material.
> Let me append a couple of tags.
>
>> 
>> Link: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2086254
>> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 398f7abdcb7e ("docs: pdfdocs: Pull LaTeX preamble part out of conf.py")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.18+
>
> Jon, it's up to you whether this one is destined for v6.0-rcX or
> for the next merge window.  It has no dependency on patches 1/3
> and 2/3.

OK, I've gone ahead and applied it with those tags.

Thanks,

jon