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Re: Please remove xml2rfc from sarge



On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:43:24PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> In effect, the IETF Secretariat requires that very specific versions
> of xml2rfc are used when you submit Internet-Drafts, which include the
> prescribed boilerplate texts in the generated documents.  I expect
> that the required boilerplates change again in the short term (mainly
> because of their sexist language).  This means that it's likely that
> the xml2rfc package will be outdated and mostly unusable shortly after
> the sarge release.

> Although I've upload a new upstream version 1.29, which will align the
> Debian package with the current requirements stated by the IETF
> Secretariat, I'd like to ask you to remove the xml2rfc packages from
> the sarge release nevertheless.

Sure, tagged for removal.

> (I can bump #303131 to severity serious if this helps.  IIRC, due to
> synchronization issues, I should wait until tomorrow with that.)

What synchronization issues are those?  Please do bump this bug to serious.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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