Re: Debhelper - docbookxml manpages
(sry for the PM by accident)
Am Donnerstag, den 16.08.2007, 18:54 +0200 schrieb Carl Fürstenberg:
> Per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433852#20 I have
> made a debhelper script. Though as I have made it, I have some
> questions (see attached file):
>
> 1. should it go into debhelper, or should it be distributed in a new package?
Depends, because you need to depend on docbook-xml, docbook-xsl and
xsltproc. Would it be acceptable for debhelper to depend on these
packages?
> 2. how should language specific things be implemented, for example po4a.
For what? I18N of DocBook XML?
> 3.is the xmllint invocation needed? it will require that the xml file
> are 100% correct, but are that 100% necissary?
xsltproc will not need xmllint. It automatically checks the validity and
it will fail with error code 6 (following upstream docs). Because both
xsltproc/docbook-xsl and docbook2x
> 4. is dh_installmandocbookxml a too long name for the file?
I guess so. What about e.g. dh_installmandbxml? Or what about extending
dh_installman to also accept XML files in package.manpages, so users
don't need several scripts for almost the same stuff. However, this
would need to add dependencies to debhelper.
FYI: In the bug report I saw your make-snippet. Some time ago I started
something similar (I was thinking about putting it into docbook-xsl or
creating a new package). Maybe we could compare our results and ideas? I
would really like to see a solution in Debian (as make-snippet or Perl
script) to handle manpage XML sources. So are you interested?
Unfortunately I didn't yet find the time to extend dh_installman (what I
was thinking about). I've uploaded my stuff to
http://debian.wgdd.de/temp/dbxsl/ (a manpage is there too and the
debian-dir shows the usage :)) Maybe it's useful for you too. Please
don't hesitate to contact me, if you have questions. I will check your
script ASAP, but it will need some days, because I'm very busy up to the
middle of september.
Regards, Daniel
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