Re: HTTP stuff timing out on package install
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 02:11:12AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Sven Luther">
>
> > There is already a bug report against libxml2 for this, but apparently the
> > libxml2 maintainer does not feel responsible for maintaining a xml
> > catalog.
>
> He's not.
Yes, i guess so.
> > So, what would it take to obtain a libxml2 catalog ?
>
> Note that it is not a 'libxml2' catalogue, it's a system-wide XML catalogue
> for every piece of software that requires one.
So we would need a repository to put them in and a way for
registering/unregistering them, and a way of querying or searching them ?
> > Whose responsability is it (the one of the debian developper who chose to
> > maintain this package ? What if nobody steps forward, either because
> > nobody knows that we need such a thing, or that nobody want take the
> > responsability of this package) to package it ?
>
> Get on the debian-xml mailing list and hurry them up ;) - it's a matter of
I really don't have time for following yet another list.
> establishing a policy and doing a small amount of hacking. Probably a good
> idea to use Red Hat's catalogue bits as a reference implementation, too.
Where does redhat put them ?
BTW, i don't think closing all the bug reports about this saying it is
not in <scrollkeeper, libxml2, ..., insert app of the day which breaks
because of it> saying that it is not a bug but a lack of a xml catalog
is a good way of urging the debian-xml people to do something about it.
Sure it will close the bugs, so the respective maintainers have a clean
record, but it does not solve the problem (and may be against the social
contract, hiding problems and such). Maybe we should create a
xml-catalog virtual package, assign the debian-xml list as maintainer
and reassign all such bug against this package ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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