Hi, Just a quick update on what's happening in 'sgml-base' land.
'install-sgmlcatalog --install' ------------------------------- Using this to register your SGML catalogs is now considered deprecated. The current practice is to use 'update-catalog'. Only three packages still use this: 'alcovebook-sgml', 'openjade1.3' and 'festival'. Bug reports have been filed (#186771, #177801 and #115911, respectively). Yann probably is already busy fixing 'alcovebook-sgml' and 'openjade1.3' (he fixed 'sgml2x' yesterday; thanks Yann!). 'festival' is a bigger problem, since it currently doesn't even build from source. The maintainer (David Huggins-Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) mentioned in #179490 that he's not very active and is thinking about orphaning this package, so this package is in trouble (see below for why). next version of 'sgml-base' --------------------------- At the end of April 2003 I'll upload the next version of 'sgml-base'. This version will officially have 'install-sgmlcatalog --install' marked as deprecated. This means it will spit out a corresponding message (pointing to using 'update-catalog') and will _not_ add the catalogs to the system anymore. '/usr/lib/sgml' --------------- This new version of 'sgml-base' will also contain code to clean up '/usr/lib/sgml'. Each invocation of 'install-sgmlcatalog --remove' checks whether the transitional catalog in '/usr/lib/sgml' is empty. If so, it's removed and unregistered from the supercatalog. Next, if '/usr/lib/sgml' is empty the symlink to the supercatalog is removed and the directory is removed. This is also the reason why packages with SGML catalogs still have the 'install-sgmlcatalog --remove' in their prerm script. There would be no other feasible way to remove '/usr/lib/sgml'. backwards compatibility symlinks -------------------------------- Currently, the following packages have symlinks in '/usr/lib/sgml' for backwards compatibility: 'sgml-base', 'sgml-data', 'docbook-dsssl' and 'sp'. How long do we want to keep these? I would like to propose that we remove these in sarge+1. 'dh_installcatalogs' -------------------- Adam wrote a debhelper script (thanks Adam!) which JoeyH kindly added to the 'debhelper' package (thanks JoeyH!). If you're using debhelper to build your package, please start using 'dh_installcatalogs'. See its manual page for all the details. review of SGML/XML packages --------------------------- As Adam mentioned in an earlier thread, we're in the process of doing a review of all the SGML/XML packages. The results of this can be found on http://people.debian.org/~ardo/PACKAGES/SGML/sgml-base.html. This page is currently not up-to-date, but I'll fix that in the coming days. Thanks, Ardo -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://people.debian.org/~ardo GnuPG fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
