Re: Backporting XML docs

Re: Liudmila Mantrova 2018-05-11 <06efc906-16f8-0cde-5bee-e3d5abfc00ba@postgrespro.ru>
> Dear all,
> 
> As you know, documentation for PostgreSQL 11 is now converted to XML. To
> avoid the overhead of adapting each patch that needs to be backported to be
> a valid SGML, hackers have been recently discussing the possibility of
> switching to XML in all supported branches.
> 
> Should this move happen, do you anticipate any packaging issues in older
> branches?
> As far as I understand, branch 10 is already using the same toolchain as
> branch 11, even though with SGML sources.

The postgresql-11 package is building on all supported Debian versions
just fine, so switching the older packages to the same toolchain
shouldn't pose any problems for us.

Christoph