[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676118: sgml-base-doc: FTBFS: nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:1:26:E: reference to entity "DEBIANDOC" for which no system identifier could be generated

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: sgml-base-doc
Version: 1.99.1
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120604 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
>  debian/rules build
> dh_testdir
> nsgmls -wall -E20 -gues sgml_layout.sgml
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:1:26:W: cannot generate system identifier for document type "DEBIANDOC"
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:1:26:E: reference to entity "DEBIANDOC" for which no system identifier could be generated
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:1:0: entity was defined here
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:1:26:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:3:10:E: element "DEBIANDOC" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:5:7:E: element "BOOK" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:5:7: open elements: DEBIANDOC
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:7:13:E: element "TITLEPAG" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:7:13: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:8:12:E: element "TITLE" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:8:12: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:9:13:E: element "AUTHOR" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:9:13: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:10:6:E: element "NAME" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:10:6: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG AUTHOR
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:11:7:E: element "EMAIL" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:11:7: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG AUTHOR
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:14:E: element "VERSION" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:14: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:20:E: element "DATE" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:20: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG VERSION
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:30:E: end tag for "DATE" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:15: start tag was here
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:13:30: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG VERSION DATE
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:14:15:E: element "ABSTRACT" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:14:15: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:17:41:E: element "EM" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:17:41: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG ABSTRACT
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:18:26:E: element "EM" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:18:26: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG ABSTRACT
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:19:43:E: element "TT" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:19:43: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG ABSTRACT
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:23:16:E: element "COPYRIGHT" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:23:16: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:24:18:E: element "COPYRIGHTSUMMARY" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:24:18: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG COPYRIGHT
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:24:30:E: general entity "copy" not defined and no default entity
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:24:30: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHTSUMMARY
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:27:3:E: element "P" undefined
> nsgmls:sgml_layout.sgml:27:3: open elements: DEBIANDOC BOOK TITLEPAG COPYRIGHT
> nsgmls:I: maximum number of errors (20) reached; change with -E option
> make: *** [check-stamp] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/06/04/sgml-base-doc_1.99.1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.