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Re: sgml-tools for Linuxdoc
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- Subject: Re: sgml-tools for Linuxdoc
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- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:24:56 +0100 (CET)
- cc: Taketoshi Sano <>,
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 dave@lafn.org wrote:
> Many months ago I submitted a bug report to the Debian Distribution
> regarding sgml-tools. I complained about too many blank lines. Finally,
> someone (Taketoshi Sano) is responding to this. When I told him we
> were still requiring sgml-tools (linuxdoc) for Howtos he checked LDP's
> website. Unfortunately, our site at first gives the erroneous
> impression that we are accepting DocBook for Howtos but then later
> corrects that. I complained about this before and I now have an
> example of the confusion it may cause. But the main purpose of this
> post is not to complain about our website (although improvement is
> needed).
>
> Taketoshi Sano has volunteered to fix real bugs in the Debian Package
> for sgml-tools. This is good news since then one can automatically
> covert it to a Redhat rpm package, making it easy for authors to use
> it:
I would advise against the last step. Just make the patches available (or
better: update the packages itself). Many people like to roll RPM from
source or are even forced to do so.
Hugo.
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