Bug#660687: I'd like to help on xml-core package

[Joseph Herlant <herlantj@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your answer.
I'll first work on the simple bugs to have a better overview of how it
currently works.
In a second time I'll work on the rewrite if it's ok for you.

Best regards,
Joseph


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 25.02.2014, 16:59 +0100 schrieb Joseph Herlant:
>
>> Do you still need help on xml-core?
>
> Yes. It is basically unmaintained atm.
>
>> I'd like to help there. Do you still maintain this package?
>>
>> There are only few bugs left, but I don't see what are the bugs that
>> need a rewrite of the bug.
>
> It is more or less a similar bug to #477751. Every package update
> re-installs all entries to /etc/xml/catalog and /etc/xml/$package.xml.
> But this is a policy violation. Changes done to the above files are not
> preserved. Further we create and manipulate the system catalog by a
> self-written tool. IMO the rewrite must finish in
>
> - shipping the /etc/xml/$package.xml file instead of creating it (so
> dh_installxmlcatalogs will simply put a file into etc/xml/)
>
> - and registering it with the system catalog by the nextCatalog entry
> instead of putting delegate* entries in the system catalog directly
> (this should be done in a way, that is compatible with using the
> xmlcatalog tool from libxml)
>
> - if a user decides he wants to unregister a catalog, he can simply
> remove the relevant nextCatalog [1] entry in /etc/xml/catalog - and this
> change must be preserved during package updates.
>
> [1] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html#s.nextcatalog
>
>> How do you want to proceed? Do you want me to work directly on the svn
>> or post patches on BTS that you would integrate to the package?
>
> You can decide yourself. If you want write access, you need to register
> an account at http://alioth.debian.org and apply for access to the
> debian-xml-sgml project. If you don't want that, you can start by
> sending patches. I have uploading rights, so I can sponsor packages
> ready for an upload.
>
> Regards, Daniel
>