Bug#409524: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#409524: FTBFS: illegal input sequence at position 1323

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert at wgdd.de> [2007-02-08 13:53]:

> Am Donnerstag, den 08.02.2007, 11:04 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere: 
> > The package builds correctly in my sid chroot on i368.
> 
> Not in my sid-pbuilder (ditto i386). The difference between Etch and Sid
> is the higher versioned libxml-sax-perl in Sid.

You are right, I was building in a chroot, not a pbuilder, which happened to
have libxml-sax-expat-perl installed.  The fix would be then simply to add
libxml-sax-expat-perl to the build-dependencies, as you suggested.  

As this fix is not intended for etch, we could take the opportunity to
package the newest upstream version (0.8.7).  At any rate, it is strange
that debian/changelog in CVS contains:

docbook2x (0.8.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * debian/control: minor cosmetic updates
  * Added 'debian/watch'

 -- Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo at debian.org>  Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:48:29 -0600

but version 0.8.5-1 was never uploaded.  Ardo?

I have been responsible for this package in the past, mainly because the
plplot package build-depended on it.  Now that I orphaned plplot, I lost
interest in maintaining docbook2x.  I hope someone will step forward and
update the package.

-- 
Rafael