[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#750593: Bug#750593: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#769242: Bug#769242: Bug#769242: samba: FTBFS in jessie/i386

[Aron Xu]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Ivo De Decker <ivodd at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 patch
>
> Hi Jelmer,
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 02:29:29PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> > The release team decided to mark 750593 as jessie-ignore, because it doesn't
>> > seem likely that this can be fixed without invasive changes, while there is a
>> > workaround for the build failure in samba.
>> There is a patch attached to that bug by Peter De Wachter that is quite small
>> and doesn't appear to be too intrusive.
>
> I didn't notice the patch before (it was added after the bug was tagged
> jessie-ignore).
>

The patch is for docbook-xml (cloned as #765567), not libxslt.

>> It would be good to get this fixed properly rather than with a workaround in
>> the Samba package, not in the least because a fixed docbook-xsl would allow
>> people to do Samba documentation work on jessie.
>
> You can still fix this bug for jessie. The tag 'jessie-ignore' doesn't mean
> that fixes for this bug won't be allowed during the freeze. It just means
> that the jessie release won't be delayed if this bug isn't fixed. If there is
> a working patch, you can just do an NMU to get the fix into jessie.
>

Please don't NMU libxslt for patches not ack'd, especially those ones
that are not accepted upstream (yet).

Best,
Aron