Yes, this needs to be fixed. I'm cleaning up pull requests and issues
and will be making a new release soon. Could you please file an issue
on the DocBook XSL github with your recommended fix:
https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/
Bob Stayton
[email protected]
On 6/8/2020 12:02 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
In docbook-xsl 1.79.2, the system identifier was changed from
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/...
to
http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl/current/...
However, this was done in a backward-incompatible way. So now, in
your customization layer or build system, you have to pick one of
these URLs, and users who have a different docbook-xsl version
installed locally will suffer, either because the stylesheets have to
be fetched from a remote server, or the build will fail entirely.
This didn't use to be a real problem in practice because 1.79.2 saw
very little adoption, but it's now trickling into various
distributions and packagings, and it's becoming a real source of
frequent build problems.
This should be fixed by making the supplied catalog files include
backward-compatible mappings. However, it seems after 1.79.2,
docbook-xsl went unmaintained, so we are now stuck in this limbo.
Is anybody in a position to get this fixed and get a new patch release
out soon please?
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