Re: DocBook 5 for Debian

[Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>]

Guillem,

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:

Hi!

On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 23:24:20 -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
> I am creating a new XSLT file to convert DocBook 5 "refentry" (man page)
> files to texinfo files on a non-Debian system.  I would like to bring
> DocBook 5 into Debian.

In a way, we already have some DocBook 5 support. :)

> Therefore, I propose filing ITPs for packages "docbook5", "docbook5-xsl",
> and "docbook5-xml".  The packages initially would be based on DocBook 5.1,
> unless DocBook 5.2 is finalized in the meantime.

Please take a look at the existing docbook5-xml and docbook-xsl-ns
packages.

That is great.  I will try to get a setup that works like what I have on my non-Debian system and see where gaps exist.  I can follow up with the XML/SGML group.

Thank you,

Paul Hardy