[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#294703: request: "relativize" filename when adding a catalog

[Sean Champ]

Package: sgml-base
Version: 1.26
Severity: wishlist


(Pardon the outline format)

* Summary

I was trying to register a local catalog in the "super" catalog at
/etc/sgml/catalog

* What I did

Protypically put, I did:

  cd /usr/local/sgml/foo/bar
  update-catalog --add --super qux.cat

* What I'd expected

I'd expected that /etc/sgml/catalog would then have contained a line:
  CATALOG "/usr/local/sgml/foo/bar/qux.cat"

* What I found

The file /etc/sgml/catalog contained a line, like:
  CATLOG "qux.cat"
...a relative pathname, which did not resolve to the qux.cat that I'd
thought I'd specified.


* Wishlist item, Summary

It could be keen, if update-catalog would notice that a file's pathname
should be recorded, as it being an absolute pathname (or a relative
pathname, but if relative, then resolving to the file that would have been
identified in the call to 'update-catalog')


* Proposed Workaround

  update-catalog --add --super $PWD/qux.cat  


* Conclusion

This is a not a huge issue, granted. I just thought it could be "wishlisted".



Thanks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
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