Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I understand that Gnome needs db2* scripts... why do they need the Cygnus > >> stylesheets? > > > >They use them internally at Cygnus for their documentation. They are > >unsupported for outside use. > > > >Don't ask me why Gnome decided to use them. I suppose it's because > >Mark Galassi is helping out with the docs. > > Well, I hope it has a license that enables redistribution.
License? You wish. :-) It's mostly Norm Walsh's stuff, but the license should be clarified for Mark's additions. > >> To be honest, there's absolutely no reason the two forks of the > >> stylesheets have to conflict. They should be able to co-exist fine. > > > >The only reason I made them conflict is because they both register > >Norm Walsh's stylesheets. > > That is evil evil evil and I can't tolerate that, no matter what > RedHat does. I'm going to have to track down Mark and slap > him into next week for doing that. I hope you don't mind if I don't > support such broken behavior in the debian package. I don't mind. Maybe he hasn't changed much... > But I'm happy to package it; it should be almost > identical in the debian/* as docbook-stylesheets. I was in a rush, so I used the same layout as Red Hat. I just copied the installation stuff out of the spec file (since there is no Makefile). I like your stuff better, but his source package is arranged differently, and I didn't want to have to debug things. > >I'm not sure how much Cygnus tweaked their > >version. It could be quite a bit since they are using it for internal > >use. Maybe there would be little difference if we used the "real" > >Norm Walsh ones instead? Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to > >experiment at the moment. > > > >I've put the package up at: > > > > ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/tmp/adam/ > > > >I didn't put a lot of effort into it. I just tried to get it to work > >like the RPM does. > > I'll need someone with an 'in' on the gnome > team to tell me if my package is doing the right thing, since the > point is gnome, not mimicing the .rpm. > > This is for potato, of course, right? Yep. Cheers, - Jim