Bug#552018: Upgrading to grave

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Sonntag, den 24.01.2010, 19:54 +0000 schrieb brian m. carlson:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:01:35PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, brian m. carlson
> > <sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:
> > > Yes.  Even if someone were to disagree that this bug is grave, at the
> > > very least, this is serious, since nobody can reasonably claim that the
> > > package in this state is suitable for release.
> > 
> > We have had 2 stable releases with this bug and upstream didn't know
> > about the bug 2 days ago. That is why I think it is reasonable to
> > downgrade the severity to important.
> 
> Honestly, I'm not really that invested in the severity of the bug, as
> long as we get a fixed version soon.  I'd really like to be able to
> build my website with ant, and this bug is a blocker for that.

You can easily workaround that. Just write your own catalog with
entries:

<nextCatalog catalog="..."/>

for every *package* catalog you need to include (e.g. the XHTML ones,
the DocBook ones). The package catalogs
(e.g. /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/catalog.xml, ...) usually don't
contain the problematic delegate* elements. Then instead to use
CatalogManager.properties in /etc/xml/resolver, just copy the file,
adjust the catalog entry and add this new file to CLASSPATH.

I understand the problem you have and it is annoying (especially because
the issue can easily be reproduced), but you can also easily workaround
the bug. So this shouldn't be a blocker for you(?).

Regards, Daniel