Re: resurrecting sgml-base
In message <[🔎] 379FA2D1.91FF31B4@lucent.com> you wrote:
>Speaking about sgml-base and the sgml standard, I've the following
>situation with debiandoc-sgml: Currently I copy the dtd and related
>stuff in the 'general' directories under /usr/lib/sgml and then I
>make symbolic links to corresponding directories under the package
>specific directories under /usr/lib/sgml/DebianDoc. I would like
>to do the inverse.
Why?
>Is there any reason not to do this?
Yes, read the Debian SGML mini policy and read on.
>Further, it would even be cool if install-sgml would take care of the
>symbolic linking. That way packages would only have to take care of
>getting their stuff under /usr/lib/sgml/<package> and install-sgml
>would take over from there and 'implements' the standard.
>From what Manoj has told me in the past, in the next major sgml-base
revision, at 'install-catalog' time the links will be made.
Thus linking back into /usr/lib/sgml/dtd from /usr/lib/sgml/DebianDoc/...
is going to make work for you and not be supported.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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