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

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.02.2007, 17:07 +0100 schrieb 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.  

Or using the `--encoding=utf-8' option in doc/Makefile(.in|.am) in the
related program call.

> 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
[snip]

It should be possible to remove the 0.8.5-branch via cvs admin command.
But if the fix for the problem would be included to a
new-upstream-version upload, the changelog entry could stay there.

>   * 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.

It's currently in the debian-xml-sgml group's CVS, so I thought, the
group is already responsible. I'm currently busy with docbook-xsl and
docbook-defguide, but when the current updates are finished, I would try
to package the latest upstream version, if nobody has objections.

Regards, Daniel