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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