Can't install gnome2 - docbook-utils is broken
Gabor Kovesdan
gabor at kovesdan.org
Fri Aug 15 04:34:37 UTC 2008
> Please submit this as a send-pr. I have fought repeatedly with the
> docbook maintainers over fixing things like this to no avail. Maybe
> if more people complain, then they will actually attempt to actually
> fix the multitude of docbook problems.
>
> This issue is one that I cannot easily see in the files. The errors
> in docbook tend to be in places where things get added and deleted and
> the resulting files never match expetations. Something has to change,
> but I do not know what it is. I really do not want to have anything
> to do with maintenance of this steaming pile, but the current
> maintainer does not do a very good job either...
I'm sorry it was my fault as I broke it with a docbook-310 change. It's
been fixed now. Could you please elaborate the other problems you have
with DocBook-related ports? I'd also like to see improvements in this
area and I'm willing to work on it.
Regards,
Gabor
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