Re: Location of entities

[Stewart Jeacocke <stewart.jeacocke@stud.man.ac.uk>]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your comments.

I have just installed sgml-data on another machine and it correctly
created the symlink to
/usr/share/xml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/

The difference between the two machines is that on the previous machine
I was upgrading sgml-data from a previous version, whereas on the
machine where the install worked, I was installing sgml-data for the
first time.

I suspect that when upgrading the package, dpkg fails to remove the
directory /usr/share/sgml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/
and then, since it still existed, it couldn't create the symlink (of the
same name) to 
/usr/share/xml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/

I guess that this is should still be considered a bug in sgml-data so
will go ahead and report it tomorrow.

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 21:40, Mark Johnson wrote:
> This is (probably) a bug in sgml-data, as that package should create
> symlinks instead of empty directories.

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:19:12PM +0000, Stewart Jeacocke wrote:
> > Looking through the archives from this list it looks like these entities
> > used to live in /usr/share/sgml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/ but
> > have been recently moved. Should I just create the required symlinks and
> > should I file a bug report against sgml-data?
> >