Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> >Essentially, Cygnus has forked the code.
>
> Huh.
That might be a bit strong - I haven't really looked into the
differences in depth. They are being maintained separately, and they
are tracking Norm Walsh's stuff.
> I understand that Gnome needs db2* scripts... why do they need the Cygnus
> stylesheets?
They use them internally at Cygnus for their documentation. They are
unsupported for outside use.
Don't ask me why Gnome decided to use them. I suppose it's because
Mark Galassi is helping out with the docs.
> >> Please patch from the potato docbook-stylesheets if you could.
> >
> >You are asking me to merge two upstream packages which have forked.
> >That's a big job. People have been jumping up and down on me for
> >weeks to get Gnome out.
>
> Maybe you could point me to the sources and I could whip it up pretty
> quick. Or give me what you're working on.
That would be great!
> To be honest, there's absolutely no reason the two forks of the
> stylesheets have to conflict. They should be able to co-exist fine.
The only reason I made them conflict is because they both register
Norm Walsh's stylesheets. I'm not sure how much Cygnus tweaked their
version. It could be quite a bit since they are using it for internal
use. Maybe there would be little difference if we used the "real"
Norm Walsh ones instead? Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to
experiment at the moment.
I've put the package up at:
ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/tmp/adam/
I didn't put a lot of effort into it. I just tried to get it to work
like the RPM does.
Cheers,
- Jim
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