On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:12:20AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> I proposed an improved patch based on Stefano's one, to upstream
> developers (see upstream's bug report). Upstream considered it quite
> intrusive and assuming that:
> 1. the rendering will be completely refactored in moinmoin 2.0 (the
> next version), which will be based on ElementTree.
> 2. the patch against moin 1.9 to drop python-xml dependency was quite
> intrusive (and it still had a few important bugs).
> Upstream developer isn't interested in such bug.
>
> I am personally skeptical, and I doubt it is worth to effort to carry
> this heavy patch ourselves.
> There would be three alternatives: 1. drop docbook feature. 2. embed a
> copy of python-xml in moin package. 3. keep using the current
> python-xml which has almost no bugs.
I Frank Lin, maintainer, and *,
I've met Thomas Waldmann (which I'm adding to the CC list) at the GSoC
mentor summit a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I took the chance of
discussing with him this specific issue.
The bottom line is that currently (and since a while now) docbook
support in moin is unmaintained upstream. Thomas is looking for some
helping hands for maintaining that code.
Hence, the issue is not as easy as solving this specific issue that
would allow us to get rid of the old python-xml in Debian, it really is:
either we find someone stepping in as the maintainer of that code, or we
will be stuck with a fairly large unmaintained code base that people bug
us about. My patch was just a first attempt to get rid of python-xml,
but is nowhere production ready due to various Unicode encoding problems
(I haven't checked whether Frank Lin's updates fix that or not).
If the issue stay as it is, my favorite scenario would be (1) (drop
docbook support).
Hope this helps,
Cheers.
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