Hi, Thanks for very interesting bug report.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: debiandoc-sgml > Version: 1.2.27 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > In the kernel-handbook source we have: > > Check the <url > id="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux&src=linux-2.6"; > name="current bug list"> Yah, I kind of remember & ... in id-value was problematic. debiandoc-sgml has some strange handling over special chars. That was why I moved may documents to docbook and added deprecation note to debiandoc-sgml. There are not just this but many irregularities with this software. > And in the HTML output this becomes: > > Check the <code><a > > href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux%5C%7C[amp%20]%5C%7Csrc=linux-2.6";>current > bug list</a></code> > > I'm attaching a fix. Please upload and ask for a freeze exception, as > this causes real breakage in debian-kernel-handbook. I give you 2 choices: * Hijack this package and make whatever changes you wish ... but fully take over responsibility of maintenance. (Please note this is what I am looking for. You are certainly a good maintainer and you proved this by your proposed patch.) * find some local hack in your package to work around this stupidity and let me keep this package as is. I would think a text like: Check the <url id="http://bugs.debian.org/"; name="Debian Bug Tracking System"> while setting "Select bugs" section to "in source package" with "linux-2.6" as its entry data. (Unfortunately, I do not know what side effects your patch causes to other packages which assume this odd behavior. Please understand.) FYI: Have you read squeeze README.Debian of this package. === NOTICE === The DebianDoc-SGML is becoming less used and its is not accepting any new feature enhancements except localization data. If you are creating a new documentation project or start making major updates on the existing documents, please consider to use Docbook XML system instead of DebianDoc-SGML because you will need things like tables and figures which are not supported by this debiandoc-sgml platform. New direct conversion tool debiandoc2dbk in this package should provide easy transition of existing debiandoc-sgml document contents into DocBook XML format with minor manual interaction. Since this is perl5/shell based script, it should run on squeeze without any modification if texlive tools are installed. ------------------ To be honest, I hated some internal SGML marking structure irregularities. But I did not wish to create non-compatible changes. What you aim at with your patch is certainly very good direction but clearly non-compatible change. I do not wish to such thing at this moment. Please understand my position and why not step up to ***hijack***. (I am willing to be sub-maintainer if you wish me to be around for this package.) Regards, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
