Re: [docbook-apps] docbook-xsl URL mess

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Yes, this needs to be fixed. I'm cleaning up pull requests and issues and will be making a new release soon. Could you please file an issue on the DocBook XSL github with your recommended fix:

https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/

Bob Stayton
bobs@sagehill.net

On 6/8/2020 12:02 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> In
>       docbook-xsl 1.79.2, the system identifier was changed from
>       
>       
>       ÂÂÂ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/...
>       
>       
>       to
>       
>       
>       ÂÂÂ http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl/current/...
>       
>       
>       However, this was done in a backward-incompatible way. So now, in
>       your customization layer or build system, you have to pick one of
>       these URLs, and users who have a different docbook-xsl version
>       installed locally will suffer, either because the stylesheets have
>       to be fetched from a remote server, or the build will fail
>       entirely.
>       
>       
>       This didn't use to be a real problem in practice because 1.79.2
>       saw very little adoption, but it's now trickling into various
>       distributions and packagings, and it's becoming a real source of
>       frequent build problems.
>       
>       
>       This should be fixed by making the supplied catalog files include
>       backward-compatible mappings. However, it seems after 1.79.2,
>       docbook-xsl went unmaintained, so we are now stuck in this limbo.
>       
>       
>       Is anybody in a position to get this fixed and get a new patch
>       release out soon please?
>       
>       
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