Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for docbook-simple (versioned as 1.1-4.2) and am about to upload it. debdiff attached.
Cheers, Julien
diff -u docbook-simple-1.1/debian/control docbook-simple-1.1/debian/control
--- docbook-simple-1.1/debian/control
+++ docbook-simple-1.1/debian/control
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
Package: docbook-simple
Architecture: all
-Pre-Depends: xml-core (>= 0.12)
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, sgml-data (>= 2.0.2), docbook-xml (>= 4.2-7)
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, sgml-data (>= 2.0.2), docbook-xml (>= 4.2-7), xml-core (>= 0.12)
Suggests: docbook-xsl
Replaces: docbook-xml-simple
Description: simplified DocBook XML Doctype and css stylesheets
diff -u docbook-simple-1.1/debian/changelog docbook-simple-1.1/debian/changelog
--- docbook-simple-1.1/debian/changelog
+++ docbook-simple-1.1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+docbook-simple (1.1-4.2) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ [ Helmut Grohne ]
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Demote Pre-Depends on xml-core to Depends. It was used to fix upgrades
+ from etch to lenny, but this is no longer necessary. Closes: #706073.
+
+ -- Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:18:01 +0200
+
docbook-simple (1.1-4.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
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