Re: entities from the sgml-base maintainer
Neil Roeth (neil@debian.org) wrote:
> On Mar 30, Ardo van Rangelrooij (ardo@debian.org) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick update on what's happening in 'sgml-base' land.
> > '/usr/lib/sgml'
> > ---------------
> >
> > This new version of 'sgml-base' will also contain code to clean up
> > '/usr/lib/sgml'. Each invocation of 'install-sgmlcatalog --remove'
> > checks whether the transitional catalog in '/usr/lib/sgml' is empty.
> > If so, it's removed and unregistered from the supercatalog. Next, if
> > '/usr/lib/sgml' is empty the symlink to the supercatalog is removed
> > and the directory is removed.
> >
> > This is also the reason why packages with SGML catalogs still have
> > the 'install-sgmlcatalog --remove' in their prerm script. There
> > would be no other feasible way to remove '/usr/lib/sgml'.
> >
> >
> > backwards compatibility symlinks
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > Currently, the following packages have symlinks in '/usr/lib/sgml' for
> > backwards compatibility: 'sgml-base', 'sgml-data', 'docbook-dsssl' and
> > 'sp'.
> >
> > How long do we want to keep these? I would like to propose that we
> > remove these in sarge+1.
>
> Speaking as the maintainer of sp, how do we start the transition to dropping
> the symlinks? What problems might occur if we drop the symlinks, and how do
> we alert whoever would be affected that they need to change? If we are going
> to drop the symlinks in sarge+1 and we need to do something to alert people
> beforehand, we need to do that alerting in sarge, i.e., we need to do it soon.
I've got no idea what might be breaking. But then again, each new release of
Debian has newer libraries and other changes. If we do this in sarge it should
go in the release notes.
I agree we should start soon. According to the current rather aggressive
schedule sarge will be release in 3 months.
> The opensp package currently includes both /usr/lib/sgml and /usr/share/sgml
> paths in its default search path for catalogs. It does not install any
> catalogs itself. Does the above mean that I need to keep /usr/lib/sgml until
> sarge+1?
If we agree to keep /usr/lib/sgml, sp should not change until it's gone.
Thanks,
Ardo
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