Re: RFS: dblatex - Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-02-04 Thread Andreas Hoenen 
Hello,

Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Andreas Hoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  - /etc/dblatex/{specs|contrib}/
  - ~/.dblatex/{specs|contrib}/
 
  dblatex would have to scan these directories in addition to the original
  ones where its own specifications/styles stay located.

 The first pair could just be symlinked from the established place, and
 then adding support to parse an additional per-user directory is just a
 goody.

 Regards, Frank

Thanks for your solution, it works as expected.  I have adapted the
package accordingly (without the goody for the moment), thus now
configuration file handling should be Debian policy compliant.

I have uploaded the fixed package, after checking with lintian, linda
and pbuilder: http://mentors.debian.net/

Thus, at the risk of repeating myself: anyone interested in sponsoring
this package?

Regards, Andreas

Andreas Hoenen   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: RFS: dblatex - Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-02-04 Thread Frank Küster 
Andreas Hoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thus, at the risk of repeating myself: anyone interested in sponsoring
 this package?

Not me - I only answered because I fixed a RC bug in db2latex-xsl a
couple of weeks ago and knew that it's hardly maintained and that
dblatex existed.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: RFS: dblatex - Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-02-02 Thread Frank Küster 
Andreas Hoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 - /etc/dblatex/{specs|contrib}/
 - ~/.dblatex/{specs|contrib}/

 dblatex would have to scan these directories in addition to the original
 ones where its own specifications/styles stay located.

The first pair could just be symlinked from the established place, and
then adding support to parse an additional per-user directory is just a
goody. 

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

RFS: dblatex - Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-02-01 Thread Andreas Hoenen 
Hello,

I'm searching for a sponsor for the following package:

* Package name: dblatex
  Version : 0.1.8
  Upstream Author : Benoit Guillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
  Description : Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

DocBook to LaTeX Publishing that transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to
DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process.
MathML 2.0 markups are supported, too. It originally started as a clone of
DB2LaTeX, but has been enhanced extensively since then and is actively
maintained by the upstream author.

The source package is found at http://mentors.debian.net/  It is Lintian
and Linda clean and builds with pbuilder.  The ITP is numbered #350397.

Benoit Guillon, the package's upstream maintainer, is informed and
agrees on getting dblatex packaged into Debian.

For discussions whether or not dblatex should be included into Debian,
you might be interested in the mail threads:
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-sgml/2005/10/msg00014.html
- 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-xml-sgml-pkgs/2006-January/001680.html

One package problem is remaining, where the upstream author and me
would appreciate advice from a sponsor:

At the moment there exist two configuration directories, where the user
can place additional configuration files/subdirectories - called
specifications and styles - besides the predefined ones:

- /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/dblatex/latex/specs/
- /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/dblatex/latex/contrib/

These additional files/subdirectories must be left alone at any package
upgrade/removal, and their location looks problematic inside a Debian
system.  What about system wide and user's configuration directories
like:

- /etc/dblatex/{specs|contrib}/
- ~/.dblatex/{specs|contrib}/

dblatex would have to scan these directories in addition to the original
ones where its own specifications/styles stay located.

The upstream author has indicated that he might adapt his sources after
an agreement upon a sound solution.  (Benoit, please correct me if I
have misinterpreted you.)  This just needs to be discussed with an
Debian expert (or in this public forum).

Thank you for your attention,

Andreas

Andreas Hoenen   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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