Re: /usr/lib/sgml
Neil Roeth (neil@debian.org) wrote:
> Is the directory /usr/lib/sgml deprecated, or perhaps even obsolete? It is
> included in opensp as part of the default sgml path and /usr/lib/sgml/catalog
> is included as part of default catalog path. On my system, everything in
> those paths is just a symlink to /usr/share/sgml. If /usr/lib/sgml is
> obsolete, I'd like to remove any references to it from my packages before we
> release sarge.
Hi,
Have you perhaps been reading my web page about sgml-base usage (or the lack of
it): http://people.debian.org/~ardo/PACKAGES/SGML/sgml-base.html ???
I'm going (albeit slowly) over all the SGML related packages to check their
conformance to the Debian SGML policy. Since I've only picked this up again
lately and haven't checked that many packages yet, I haven't announced this
yet publicly and officially. By theway, if you look at this page, please
ignore the "Old" stuff. The "New" section has the results of my latest check.
But since you're asking: Yes, /usr/lib/sgml is deprecated and we only have symlinks
in there (except for openjade1.3. I'm not aware we already made the decision to
remove these symlinks. Currently they're there for backwards compatibility. That's
also why there still is a symlink to the /etc/sgml/catalog in there.
If the people on this list think it's time to break this backwards compatibility
and really clean up /usr/lib/sgml that's fine by me. I'll then put the code in
sgml-base to remove the symlink to /etc/sgm/catalog, remove the transitional
catalog and try to 'rmdir /usr/lib/sgml'.
It would also be nice in the maintainer of openjade1.3 (hi Yann) finally fixed
bug report #177801 to remove those files from /usr/lib/sgml. Maybe this needs
to be NMU'ed.
There are a couple of other issues with sp, jade and the like, but I haven't put
those on that web page yet (hint: empty directories).
Thanks,
Ardo
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Ardo van Rangelrooij
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home page: http://people.debian.org/~ardo
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