Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook setup on Debian 3.0

[Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:47:34PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 15:32, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> > * Mike M <linux-support at earthlink dot net> wrote [030226 13:37]:
> > > I did apt-get install sgml2x.  I can't find runjade.
> >
> > IIRC 'runjade' is only in the unstable 'sgml2x' package.

Unfortunately it appeared in 0.99.4.  You'll note that it is also
available in "testing" (sarge), since I haven't done a release in the
last 6 months or so - see http://packages.debian.org/sgml2x


> With openjade1.3 I get 5390 warnings from a 16-line source file.  Should I 
> ignore all warnings or most warnings?
> 
> I cowardly avoid anything called unstable.  Would this work just as well?

For this particular case, yes.  There are no blocking bugs I know of -
although things can still be improved, as usual :)


What I usually do, is having all of stable, testing, and unstable in
/etc/apt/sources.list:

| deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
| deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
| deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free


While making sure that by default I get packages from stable, with
this statement in /etc/apt/apt.conf:

| APT::Default-Release "3.0*";


> With jade I get no warnings.  Is it just throwing warnings away and giving a 
> false sense that all is well?

Mostly :)

However, for most purposes this warning is harmless.  Since DTDDECL
support is quite recent, virtually no application really relies on it.

Regards,
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