[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#626036: Please sort catalogs to avoid spurious changes between systems

[Josh Triplett]

Package: xml-core
Version: 0.13
Severity: normal

I observed the following diff between /etc on two of my systems:

--- /etc/xml/catalog    2011-05-07 20:37:11.297456607 -0700
+++ etc/xml/catalog     2011-04-20 15:04:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
 <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/" catalog="file:///etc/xml/sgml-data.xml"/>
 <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="/usr/share/sgml/dtd/qaml-xml.dtd" catalog="file:///etc/xml/sgml-data.xml"/>
-<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//GlobalTransCorp//DTD XML Catalogs V1.0-Based Extension V1.0//EN" catalog="file:///etc/xml/xml-core.xml"/>
-<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//Norman Walsh//DTD CALS Table Model XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//DTD XML Exchange Table Model 19990315" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
+<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//Norman Walsh//DTD CALS Table Model XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
+<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//GlobalTransCorp//DTD XML Catalogs V1.0-Based Extension V1.0//EN" catalog="file:///etc/xml/xml-core.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//Norman Walsh//ELEMENTS DocBk XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
-<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//DTD XML Catalogs V1.0//EN" catalog="file:///etc/xml/xml-core.xml"/>
 <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://globaltranscorp.org/oasis/catalog/xml/tr9401.dtd" catalog="file:///etc/xml/xml-core.xml"/>
+<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//DTD XML Catalogs V1.0//EN" catalog="file:///etc/xml/xml-core.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//W3C//DTD SVG" catalog="file:///etc/xml/sgml-data.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
 <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd" catalog="file:///etc/xml/xml-core.xml"/>
-<delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://xml.ascc.net/xml/resource/qaml-xml" catalog="file:///etc/xml/sgml-data.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
+<delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://xml.ascc.net/xml/resource/qaml-xml" catalog="file:///etc/xml/sgml-data.xml"/>
 <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/" catalog="file:///etc/xml/sgml-data.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//Norman Walsh//ENTITIES DocBk XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>
 <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBk XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook-xml.xml"/>


Notice that both files have the same lines, just in different orders.
Please consider sorting catalog files to avoid these spurious
differences.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xml-core depends on:
ii  sed                           4.2.1-9    The GNU sed stream editor
ii  sgml-base                     1.26+nmu1  SGML infrastructure and SGML catal

xml-core recommends no packages.

Versions of packages xml-core suggests:
ii  debhelper                     8.1.6      helper programs for debian/rules

-- no debconf information