Bug#812663: debian-policy: FTBFS - nsgmls: Command not found

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 07:00:51PM +0000, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.9.6.1
> Severity: serious
> Usertags: goto-cc
> 
> During a rebuild of all Debian packages in a clean sid chroot (using cowbuilder
> and pbuilder) the build failed with the following error.
> 
> [...]
> make[1]: Entering directory '/srv/jenkins-slave/workspace/sid-goto-cc-debian-policy/debian-policy-3.9.6.1'
> nsgmls -wall -gues policy.sgml
> make[1]: nsgmls: Command not found
> Makefile:17: recipe for target 'policy.sgml.validate' failed
> make[1]: *** [policy.sgml.validate] Error 127
> 
> 
> The full build log is attached; please do let me know if the problem is
> unreproducible, in which case I shall try to investigate further.

No, I can reproduce it by uninstalling sp.

There is two issues:
- First debian-policy should build-depends directy on sp since the main
  Makefile call nsgmls
- Second it might be a good time to migrate to openjade and opensp.

Thanks for your report!
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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