[docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4

[Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org>]

I punt my vote to Adam Di Carlo (Hi Adam:) on this one, since he packages
DocBook and some entities for Debian, and has a much better sense of the
packaging issues.

Cheers,
Mark


> I think it's time to stop shipping our own hacked sets with DocBook.
> 
> Pro: - one less set of entities in the world
>      - makes the distribution smaller
>      - fixes a recently reported bug that the mapping for hyphen
>        is incorrect in the current sets
>      - relies on an external standard for XML entities just like for SGML
>        entities
>      - means that a single set can be shared across all of a users documents
> 
> Con: - one more thing for the end user to install
>      - I don't know if they're packaged yet
>      - the system identifier will hit the net if you aren't using a catalog
>        of some sort
> 
> 
> On balance, I think the pros outweigh the cons, but I doubt that'll
> get unanimous agreement.

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