[Clfs-dev] r7105

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

M.Canales.es wrote:
> El Martes, 11 de Septiembre de 2007 15:04, Alexander E. Patrakov escribió:
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>> OK. Now imagine the following situation: someone wants to create a
>> Debian package with the LFS book. Debian policy requires that all HTML
>> and PDF files are rebuilt from XML source in this case. If the LFS book
>> relies on the external DocBook XSL setup of a certain version, I see no
>> way to do it, except by reverting the switch to the external copy of
>> DocBook XSL stylesheets (which is as bad as any other reversion of
>> upstream changes) or changing the stylesheet version to "current" (which
>> is going to break PDF - even worse).
>>     
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> I don't see here an issue for us, but for distro packages creators. 
>   

Yes, an issue for distro package creators, but caused by LFS upstream 
not willing to cooperate :)

> In any distro, when package A depend on version X of package B where X is not 
> the default version for B on the target distro release version, then a 
> package B-X that can be installed side-by-side without conflicts with the 
> default package B is created.
>   

Yes, if such package is available.

> That has been true from always for autotools packages, back-ward compatibility 
> libraries,  libstdc++ versions needed to run closed binaries, etc.
>
> Why should it be diferent when related about DB-XSL versions?
>
>   
This is a question to distros, not to me. Anyway, there are no Debian 
packages with old docbook-xsl versions.

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Alexander E. Patrakov