Bug#182445: ITP: xmlroff -- XSL Formatter

[Bart Schuller <schuller@lunatech.com>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:07:14PM +0000, David Pashley wrote:
> * Package name    : xmlroff
>   Version         : 0.2.0
>   Upstream Author : Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@Sun.COM>
> * URL             : http://xmlroff.sourceforge.net/history.html
> * License         : BSD

You are going to have fun with this one!

xmlroff may be BSD, but it will have to go to contrib, because you'll
also have to package pangopdf, which needs pdflib, which is non-free and
also needs to be packaged.

You'll get to deal with the half done fork of pango that is pangopdf.
There is a new library and a bunch of libraries that have exactly the
same name as the originals in pango, but contain more symbols. I didn't
dare to have it replace the standard pango libs. The package does try to
put them in a private directory, but forgets to do the same for some
config files.
Then there's the -L/usr/lib and explicit paths to the "wrong" pango libs
that appears in the final link line of xmlroff, which I solved by doing
the link by hand.

I got a working package out of it. It's fast. It's also very incomplete
and buggy. Most multi-page documents that I tried it on would send it
into an infinite loop (but no memory leak!)

This is all to say that, let me know if you need help :-)

The package is definitely worth working on. Let's hope that it attracts
some talented C hackers.

-- 
Bart.