Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The "ent" symlink in DocBook DTD directories should be removed.
> For example,
>
>   /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.4/ent
>
> It's not necessary. Try removing it and you will see what I mean.
> With the current catalog setup, the ISO character entities seem to
> be getting resolved by their public IDs.
>
> Even if that symlink were being followed by catalog-aware tools,
> it wouldn't produce the expected result. Because the dbcentx.mod
> file uses system IDs with filenames like this:
>
>   ent/isoamsa.ent
>
> Whereas in /usr/share/xml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/ the
> actual filenames are like this:
>
>  ISOamsa.ent

Actually, only 4.4 had it this way, and that was a separte bug 
(fixed for the next upload).

Given that is fixed, I think the symlinks still have a meaningful purpose.
How does it hurt to leave them?

-- 
.....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.debian.org/>



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