Re: [ITP] DocBook 5 + tools

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 30/03/2017 16:39, Holger Bast wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm interested in maintaining DocBook 5 schemata plus some additional tools for docbook (daps and jing-trang). I've never maintained a package before, so I think the best way for me would be starting with DocBook 5. By creating the cygport file I run into some questions that I would like to address:

Thanks for doing this.

For the avoidance of doubt, what license applies to this?

> 1) docbook-5.0 installation path
> All docbook-4.x files are installed in /usr/share/xml/docbook/<xml-dtd-4.5> and so on. With DocBook 5 the distribution format changed and there is now one folder with all necessary information:
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> I propose to put the hole distribution under
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> /usr/share/xml/docbook/docbook-5.0/
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> so everything is in one place. I also had a look at Ubuntu; they put the schema-folders (dtd, rng, schematron (renamed sch), xsd and catalog-docbook5.xml) under
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> /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema
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> and all documentation in their doc-structure. In my opinion, putting everything at one place would be the easiest way to work with.

I think the documentation should be under /usr/share/doc, both to 
conform with our packaging guidelines (such as they are), and for 
discoverability (people may know to look in /usr/share/doc for 
documentation)