[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#370615: Fails to process aptitude documentation with "missing \endgroup"

[Daniel Burrows]

Package: db2latex-xsl
Version: 0.8pre1-6.1
Severity: normal

  As an experiment, I decided to run the aptitude documentation through
db2latex.  The resulting LaTeX file died with this error:

! Missing \endgroup inserted.
<inserted text> 
                \endgroup 
l.764 \end{list}}]
                  \null{}

  The LaTeX context here is:

---------- snip here ---------------
The most important actions are:

\begin{description}
% \null and \mbox are tricks to induce different typesetting decisions
\item[{\label{id2467091}
\begin{list}{}{\setlength{\itemindent}{-\leftmargin}\setlength{\parsep}{0mm}}
\item\raggedright\texttt{aptitude  update }
\end{list}
}]\null{}
This command updates the package lists, as if you had entered the visual interface and pressed {\bfseries{u}}.
---------- snip here -----------

  The corresponding DocBook text is:

------- snip ---------
      <para>
	The most important actions are:
      </para>

      <variablelist>
	<varlistentry>
	  <term>
	    <cmdsynopsis>
	      <command>aptitude</command>
	      <arg choice='plain'>update</arg>
	    </cmdsynopsis>
	  </term>

	  <listitem>
	    <para>
	      This command updates the package lists, as if you had
	      entered the visual interface and pressed
	    <keycap>u</keycap>.
	    </para>
	  </listitem>
	</varlistentry>
-------- snip ---------

  I'll try to look into this more tomorrow.  It would be nice to have
a functional free-software toolchain for making printable versions of
DocBook manuals.

  Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

db2latex-xsl depends on no packages.

Versions of packages db2latex-xsl recommends:
ii  docbook-xml                   4.4-5      standard XML documentation system,
ii  tetex-bin                     3.0-16     The teTeX binary files
ii  xsltproc                      1.1.16-2   XSLT command line processor

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