Re: Sven Rudolph: Re: still looking for someone to adopt sgml-tools?
On Wednesday 18 August 1999, at 15 h 3,
Taketoshi Sano <xlj06203@nifty.ne.jp> wrote:
> I have just notice that Stephane Bortzmeyer now prepares to take
> the job from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lsgml-tools.html,
Right, but do not expect miracles: many of the bugs are upstream (and
sgml-tools v1 is no longer maintained upstream) and I'm quite busy (I'm
currently maintaining the Adèle package, ten days, 3.3 kg and a lot of bugs:
she cannot drink by herself, for instance). I'll focus on interactions bugs
(such as incompatibilities between the two sgml-tools).
> I see The original & upstream author of sgml-tools say that sgml-tools (v1)
> has no support now,
Right. However, the main reason given on the sgml-tools mailing list, for the
deprecation of sgml-tools v1, was the fact that the Linux Documentation
Project was moving from LinuxDoc to DocBook. Anyone can easily see that it is
wrong: not ONE Linux HOWTO is written in DocBook. I do not judge the authors
of the HOWTOs (I use DocBook myself) but this implies that we should, as much
a possible, to continue to support sgml-tools v1, if we want Debian to be used
by HOWTO authors.
> I myself does not know much about SGML, DSSSL, python, or XML.
Good luck. (PS: my personal recommandation is to use XML, as soon as possible.
For DocBook, this implies DocBk instead of DocBook - Debian package
docbook-xml.)
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