[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#355440: Bug#283173: w3c-sgml-lib vs w3-dtd-mathml

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-05-25 21:05:52 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> I am not sure what about w3c-dtd-mathml. However there is a long history
> between w3c-dtd-xhtml and w3c-sgml-lib so I will assume it was a typo and
> you meant w3c-dtd-xhtml.

There was no typo. I wrote w3c-dtd-xhtml.

> No you can't remove w3c-dtd-xhtml. Many , many more people depend on it
> currently than w3c-sgml-lib. Look at the popcorn ratings.

I don't see why w3-dtd-mathml should be treated differently from
w3c-dtd-xhtml. Why would there be a conflict between w3c-sgml-lib
and w3-dtd-mathml, but not between w3c-sgml-lib and w3c-dtd-xhtml?
Note that like w3-dtd-mathml, w3c-dtd-xhtml provides entity files
that are also in w3c-sgml-lib. So, if w3c-sgml-lib and
{w3-dtd-mathml and/or w3c-dtd-xhtml} are installed at the same
time, things can go wrong because the catalog can reference the
same id (or prefix) to two different places at the same time.

> That said they are totally trying to do the same thing. They even - check
> the copyroght file  - have the same upstream. The difference is that
> w3c-sgml-lib has a working watch file and leaves the upstream largely
> untouched, whereas w3c-dtd-xhtml is just a random jumble of files vaguely
> associated with the W3C.
> 
> I have tried twice to make w3c-sgml-lib a drop in replacement for
> w3c-dtd-xhtml and failed. As I see it the only way forward is to make the
> reverse dependencies of w3c-dtd-xhtml depend instead on w3c-sgml-lib. Then
> w3c-dtd-xhtml can be dropped. There is no way that should be attempted this
> side of the freeze.

OK.

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