Re: /usr/lib/sgml
On Sep 16, Ardo van Rangelrooij (ardo@debian.org) wrote:
> 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 ???
No, I hadn't seen it. Now I have :-)
> 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'.
I don't have a particularly strong reason to remove /usr/lib/sgml, but I
realized if we wait for sarge+1, then that will mean it will exist for a
couple of years more. If we forget to do something we need to do for a smooth
transition, then we'd have to wait for sarge+2, which is probably a couple of
years beyond that. If we can just delete it for sarge without significant
negative side effects, that'd be great.
> 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).
OK, I'll do what needs doing for sp and jade.
--
Neil Roeth
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