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.leid...@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 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
