This is due to sgmltools-2 which is using /etc/sgml avant la lettre and in the wrong way (at least not in the way we currently look at things). Simply reverting this bug to sgmltools-2 seems not entirely appropriate to me, however.
Thanks, Ardo On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:10:39AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Package: sgml-base > Version: 1.06 > Severity: grave > > I hope I'm not been hysterical with the severity of the bug, please > downgrade it if so. > > After installation of sgml-base 1.06, /etc/sgml/catalog contains: > > -- AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED, DO NOT EDIT -- > CATALOG "/usr/lib/sgml/catalog" > CATALOG "/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/sgmltools/sgmltools.cat" > CATALOG /etc/sgml/transitional.cat > > But if I look at /usr/lib/sgml/catalog, I see: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 26 11:02 /usr/lib/sgml/catalog > -> /etc/sgml/catalog > > Thus, this seems like a circular situation. Indeed, nsgmls reports: > > nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/catalog:2:8:E: CATALOG entries cause loop > nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/catalog:2:8:E: CATALOG entries cause loop > > > -- System Information > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: sparc > Kernel: Linux arroz 2.2.18pre21 #1 Wed Nov 22 17:12:06 EST 2000 sparc64 > > Versions of packages sgml-base depends on: > ii perl-5.005 [perl5] 5.005.03-7.1 Larry Wall's Practical > Extracting > ii sed 3.02-6 The GNU sed stream editor. > > >
