tag 615125 - confirmed + moreinfo
affects 615125 - w3c-markup-validator
severity important
thanks
Joey,
I think a little more investigation is required. For a start if I purge
w3c-sgml-lib and install w3c-dtd-xhtml no such file is found in a manual
inspection of the file system. Issues that I thought were related and an
indication of something seriously wrong, turned out to be minor and
unrelated. Using xmlcatalog I cannot see any obvious incompatibility. In
theory I should install wdg-html-validator and try and work out what it
is doing to fail, but I would rather avoid that as the package is
orphaned and I would feel compelled to adopt it and I already have
enough (if not too many) Debian commitments.
I would really appreciate it if someone could point out what
wdg-html-validator and I could put that in a script as an integrity
check inside w3c-sgml-lib.
Then there is the more general question of why I did things the way I
did. I wanted to discuss this six months ago when I started working on
the w3c-markup-validator but there were few takers. w3c-sgml-lib is
intended as a direct substitute for w3c-dtd-xhtml. Both packages have
the same upstream source. However the w3c-dtd-xhtml has an arbitary
layout that bears no relation to the upstream. Whereas w3c-sgml-lib
attempts to follow upstream but provide soft links that give backward
compatibility. Obviously I hope w3c-dtd-xhtml will be phased out.
If it turns out that there is a genuine incompatibility between the two
packages then I would have to add a Conflicts clause rather than the
current Breaks/Provides. However that would seem to be less than ideal.
Nicholas
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