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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:24:12 +0200
From:      Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>
To:        Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net>
Subject:   Re: Can't install gnome2 - docbook-utils is broken
Message-ID:  <48A504EC.9020209@kovesdan.org>
In-Reply-To: <48A4E197.4010501@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
References:  <87ef649b0808140912m39b05fefl527cce2b8bc8e9ca@mail.gmail.com>	<87ef649b0808140918k3ae0664bi944ae459bcb2981a@mail.gmail.com> <48A4E197.4010501@zircon.seattle.wa.us>

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> Please submit this as a send-pr.  I have fought repeatedly with the 
> docbook maintainers over fixing things like this to no avail.  Maybe 
> if more people complain, then they will actually attempt to actually 
> fix the multitude of docbook problems.
>
> This issue is one that I cannot easily see in the files.  The errors 
> in docbook tend to be in places where things get added and deleted and 
> the resulting files never match expetations.  Something has to change, 
> but I do not know what it is.  I really do not want to have anything 
> to do with maintenance of this steaming pile, but the current 
> maintainer does not do a very good job either...
I'm sorry it was my fault as I broke it with a docbook-310 change. It's 
been fixed now. Could you please elaborate the other problems you have 
with DocBook-related ports? I'd also like to see improvements in this 
area and I'm willing to work on it.

Regards,
Gabor



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