Re: Bug#87727: circulatiry between /etc/sgml/catalog and /usr/lib/sgml/catalog

[Ardo_Vanrangelrooij <ardo@enteract.com>]

This is due to sgmltools-2 which is using /etc/sgml avant la lettre
and in the wrong way (at least not in the way we currently look at
things).  Simply reverting this bug to sgmltools-2 seems not entirely
appropriate to me, however.

Thanks,
Ardo

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:10:39AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 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.        
> 
>