Bug#888953: gobby accesses the network during the build

[Philipp Kern]

On 2018-02-01 11:38, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 11:23:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 03:53:11PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> > While seen on a launchpad build, it looks like a missing build dependency,
>> > because it tries to access the docbookx.dtd from the network:
> 
> My understanding is that it's currently up to the package being built
> (e.g. gobby, not gnome-doc-utils) to build-depend on the appropriate
> package to get the DTDs of its XML documentation to be registered
> in the xml-core catalog and available without hitting the network:
> docbook-xml for docbookx.dtd, rarian-compat for scrollkeeper-omf.dtd,
> and possibly others.

I'll note that I was told to stop build-depending on rarian-compat in 
#885642, which then introduced this bug.

[...]
> (For context, Scrollkeeper is very obsolete, rarian-compat is an 
> obsolete
> compatibility shim for Scrollkeeper, and gnome-doc-utils has itself
> been superseded by yelp-tools; it's deprecations all the way down. I've
> asked the ftp team to override gnome-doc-utils from gnome to oldlibs,
> and pushed a better package description to gnome-team git for inclusion
> in the next upload.)

Well, I suppose it'd help if there would be some guidance on how to do 
things today. I'm (somewhat) happy to fix it upstream if needed.

Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern