Re: [ANNOUNCE] first public, highly experimental verison of xml-core

[James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>]

>>>>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:00:10 -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org> said:

 Ardo> Hi, I've made the first public, highly experimental version of
 Ardo> the xml-core package available at

 Ardo>   http://people.debian.org/~ardo/UPLOADS/

 Ardo> The xml-core package contains the 'update-xmlcatalog' tool to
 Ardo> manage XML catalog files.  See update-catalog(8) for some
 Ardo> details.  For more details see the draft of the Debian XML
 Ardo> policy see

 Ardo>   http://people.debian.org/~mrj/oasis/XML-Catalogs/Implementation-Guide.html

 Ardo> Note that this draft still supports defining and mapping
 Ardo> aliases for often-used stylesheet files to filenames on the
 Ardo> local filesystem.  The next version of the policy will require
 Ardo> a local catalog for these files also, so a package catalog only
 Ardo> has entries for local catalogs.  This is already implemented in
 Ardo> update-xmlcatalog.

 Ardo> Please report any issues, bugs, etc. to this list and _not_ to
 Ardo> the BTS.  This is not an official Debian package yet.

Bugs:
1) Directory /var/lib/xml-core is not included in package.
2) postinst script is not idempotent.
3) Don't see a way to add a <nextCatalog> entry to the
   /etc/xml/catalog file using update-xmlcatalog.

Jim

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