Re: Bug#90841: why split docbook-website-stylesheets off?

[Mark Johnson <mark@duke.edu>]

Adam Di Carlo writes:
> Package: docbook-xml-website
> Version: 1.9-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I'm wondering why you bother splitting off docbook-website-stylesheets
> as a separate package and not just ship with docbook-xml-website?  The
> source comes together...
> 
> If there's a good reason to do this, just close this bug.

I split off the stylesheets so one could install the website dtd w/o
needing to install the full docbook-xsl-stylesheets. Logically,
they're independent. Same goes for the docbook slides package.

However, it's requires more packaging work to split these packages and
I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

Does anybody (on debian-sgml) have an opinion one way or another?

Since I'll be repackaging all this stuff (as well as the
docbook-xsl-stylesheets) for the /usr/share/sgml layout this weekend,
I'll need to decide which path to follow. 

Whichever method is used, I'll make note of it in the LSB
implementation summary, still in draft form:

 http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/debian/sgml/lsb-on-debian.html/index.html

BTW, I'm inclined to keep the upstream structure and ditch the
splitting off of the stylesheets. 

Thanks for the feedback.

Mark

> -- 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 docbook-xml-website depends on:
> ii  docbook-xml                   4.1.2-4    XML DTD for DocBook, also known as
>