Bug#945145: O: docbook-dsssl -- modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, for print and HTML

[Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>]

On 2019-12-29 22:29, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org> [191229 21:26]:
> > I'm not sure if anyone or anything is still using this.
>
> Certainly a few reverse (Build-)Depends:
>
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> # Broken Depends:
> docbook-utils: docbook-utils
> ldp-docbook-stylesheets: ldp-docbook-dsssl
> sgmltools-lite: sgmltools-lite
>
> # Broken Build-Depends:
> bochs: docbook-dsssl
> dictionaries-common: docbook-dsssl
> docbook-utils: docbook-dsssl
> hugs98: docbook-dsssl
> idzebra: docbook-dsssl
> installation-guide: docbook-dsssl
> kannel: docbook-dsssl
> kannel-sqlbox: docbook-dsssl
> libdbi: docbook-dsssl
> libdbi-drivers: docbook-dsssl
> libetpan: docbook-dsssl
> libopenusb: docbook-dsssl
> libusb: docbook-dsssl
> lprng-doc: docbook-dsssl
> opensp: docbook-dsssl
> pgpool2: docbook-dsssl
> privoxy: docbook-dsssl
> sgml2x: docbook-dsssl
> slony1-2: docbook-dsssl
> yaz: docbook-dsssl

Yeah, about half of these are wrapper tools or something of the sort, 
half are very old software packages that should update their 
documentation build process upstream (or should be removed from Debian).

> While investigating this - knowing nothing about docbook myself -, I
> discovered that docbook.org recommends using pandoc instead of the
> openjade/xmlto/... zoo. Maybe other maintainers might find this
> useful.

I'm not aware of this recommendation and I couldn't find it.  The most 
straightforward change would be to change to docbook-xsl.  But that 
would be an upstream decision.