[bug#65479] [PATCH core-updates v2 03/62] gnu: docbook-xml-5.1: Fix URIs in catalog.xml.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello!

Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu> writes:

> On 2023-10-05 20:23, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>>> +                    ;; The .zip release mistakenly uses '5.1CR4' instead of
>>> +                    ;; '5.1' as intended by 
>>> <https://docbook.org/xml/5.1/catalog.xml>.
>>> +                    #~(substitute* "schemas/catalog.xml"
>>> +                        (("5\\.1CR4") #$version)))))
>> 
>> Fun!  Is this known upstream?
>
> No idea. (it doesn't look obvious where issues should be reported to)

They appear to accept issues on their Github:
https://github.com/docbook/docbook/issues

> The upstream is rather strange IMO: the .zip releases don't seem
> to get updated (otherwise we'd see docbook-xml-4.1.2 retrofitted with
> a catalog.xml instead of leaving it up to distros to figure this one
> out in painful ways) and the files in the .zip don't match against
> the files in their HTTP mirror [1].
>
> You can see that [2] doesn't have the bogus entries that are in the
> zip release [3].
>
> My guess is that the HTTP mirror gets “hotfixes” but the .zip release
> is the original release that is left frozen in time.
>
> Other fun extras:
> There seems to be a OASIS “upstream” as well [5][6], and the URIs in
> the catalog [7] for the same standard are different!!
>
> Not only that, the OASIS “upstream” lists a 5.1.1 release [8] which
> is absent from the official [4] home page.

Interesting.  If you could forward all these oddities to an issue
upstream perhaps that'd help them or someone else.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim