Package: w3c-dtd-xhtml Version: w3c-dtd-xhtml and w3c-sgml-lib Severity: serious
I am opening this bug as serious. I believe we can aim at next release to get this issue sorted out. I am pasting the discussion here: ... No you can't remove w3c-dtd-xhtml. Many , many more people depend on it currently than w3c-sgml-lib. Look at the popcorn ratings. That said they are totally trying to do the same thing. They even - check the copyroght file - have the same upstream. The difference is that w3c-sgml-lib has a working watch file and leaves the upstream largely untouched, whereas w3c-dtd-xhtml is just a random jumble of files vaguely associated with the W3C. I have tried twice to make w3c-sgml-lib a drop in replacement for w3c-dtd-xhtml and failed. As I see it the only way forward is to make the reverse dependencies of w3c-dtd-xhtml depend instead on w3c-sgml-lib. Then w3c-dtd-xhtml can be dropped. There is no way that should be attempted this side of the freeze. However if the point of w3c-sgml-lib is that it can be easily kept uptodate, the irony is that at the moment I cannot because of #665296. That bug looks trviial to fix, but quite frankly I am exhausted at the moment. ... See refs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283173#33 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355440#42 Now that #665296 is closed we can remove this package (hopefully). Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
