[xml/sgml] Packaging docbook-css

[Mark Johnson]

Dave,

You really should contact the sourceforge gang about adding your 
stylesheets to the project. IMO, they'd be a valuable addition - but 
then I'm not the grand poobah:)

Probably contact Mike Smith <smith at xml-doc.org> (CC:'d) to get his 
feedback.

Cheers,
Mark

David Holroyd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:26:19AM +0000, W. Borgert wrote:
> 
>>[David, I put you on CC, because maybe you have a suggestion for
>>the Debian package name of your CSS files?]
>>
>>On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:03:31PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>>
>>>My only issue is with the package name.  'docbook-css' is a rather
>>>generic title, and it kinda gives it the air of officialdom, which you
>>>might want to think twice about.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Either I stay with the upstream name docbook-css, or I add
>>the author name to it ("docbook-css-holroyd" or
>>"holroyd-docbook-css"), if he doesn't object.  However, I do not
>>see the danger of alternative DocBook CSS stylesheets, that are
>>really worth separate packaging.
> 
> 
> I can't really think of other examples of packages names which include
> the upstream author's name, but maybe there are precedents for this?  If
> so, I have no objection.
> 
> You might also consider using the domain name used to host the project
> to 'brand' the package, thus going some way to fulfil the longstanding
> need for more packages including 'badger' in their names.
> 
> [I have actually considered asking over at docbook-apps if they want to
> host these files in the canonical Docbook (CVS) repository, to give them
> some air of officialdom.  It just didn't seem all that important
> though.]
> 
> My preference for a package name would be to keep 'docbook-css', but
> then I would say that, wouldn't I ;)
> 
> 
> Regarding installation path; if you do go for,
> 
>   /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/<author>
> 
> then I'd ask that, given Our Lord Norm gets to have 'nwalsh', that I
> should get have 'dholroyd' (i.e. including the initial letter of the
> first name in the <author> path component).
> 
> 
> Roll-on XML Catalog support in Mozilla!
> dave
> 
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