Re: sgml-tools: creates invalid texinfo files
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On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 15 h 26, the keyboard of Wichert Akkerman
<wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> It's simple: grab a dpkg source from unstable and try to build it.
Another case for source dependencies, trying to find out what dpkg needs yo be built :-)
Anyway, after investigation:
- yes, it fails, as you said,
- the sgmlsasp program is indeed in the sgml-tools package but it is used outside of SGMLtools abilities. The sgml-tools package is here only to proceed Linuxdoc documents, not instances of the texinfo.dtd which comes with dpkg. (sgmlsasp should really be in a separate package.)
- sgmlsasp works by replacing SGML tags with elements (here Texinfo elements) which are found in a mapping file, distributed with dpkg (doc/texinfo.texi_mapping). Apparently, sgmlsasp did what it was told to do in this file. So, I believe the bug is in dpkg itself.
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