Debian XML/SGML Group

Task description

Collaborative XML/SGML packaging effort for Debian.

Infrastructure

Interacting with the team

Get involved

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Tasks, if you have basic knowledge about ["XML"]/["SGML"]:

Help with packaging.

There are several packages, which have been orphaned or where the maintainer is ["MIA"]. This currently includes all packages [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mrj@debian.org maintained by Mark Johnson] in the past.

Help fixing bugs.

There are [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org several bugs] open. If you are interested, just send patches or maintain a package.

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Tasks, if you have good knowledge about ["XML"]/["SGML"] and their systems in ["Debian"]:

Improve the Debian ["XML"] and ["SGML"] policies.

Check the documentation for things to improve.

Improve dh_installxmlcatalogs to read catalogs itself.

The debhelper script currently needs to know all public and system IDs, that should be registered. It would make things a lot easier to parse catalog files directly. Something like package;catalog.xml. This should extract all system and public identifiers and do an local;catalog.xml;INSTALLED_CATALOG and package;system;SYSTEMID;INSTALLED_CATALOG on the fly, so maintainers do not need to do this by hand. Such a solution needs an additional option to avoid the registration of IDs found in the catalog.

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Tasks, if you have deep knowledge of the ["XML"]/["SGML"] (related) systems (used in ["Debian"]). This includes knowedge about the policy drafts:

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More stuff

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