circulatiry between /etc/sgml/catalog and /usr/lib/sgml/catalog

[Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>]

Package: sgml-base
Version: 1.06
Severity: grave

I hope I'm not been hysterical with the severity of the bug, please
downgrade it if so.

After installation of sgml-base 1.06, /etc/sgml/catalog contains:

-- AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED, DO NOT EDIT --
CATALOG "/usr/lib/sgml/catalog"
CATALOG "/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/sgmltools/sgmltools.cat"
CATALOG /etc/sgml/transitional.cat

But if I look at /usr/lib/sgml/catalog, I see:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Feb 26 11:02 /usr/lib/sgml/catalog -> /etc/sgml/catalog

Thus, this seems like a circular situation.  Indeed, nsgmls reports:

nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/catalog:2:8:E: CATALOG entries cause loop
nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/catalog:2:8:E: CATALOG entries cause loop


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: sparc
Kernel: Linux arroz 2.2.18pre21 #1 Wed Nov 22 17:12:06 EST 2000 sparc64

Versions of packages sgml-base depends on:
ii  perl-5.005 [perl5]          5.005.03-7.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting 
ii  sed                         3.02-6       The GNU sed stream editor.