Package: sgml-data Version: 2.0.3 Severity: minor In random surfing around www.debian.org, etc, I noticed that the "sgml-data" package as currently provided by all of old-stable (Debian 5.0), stable (6.0), and unstable suggests a package called "doc-html-w3", but this latter package is apparently not available in any of these versions. See for instance http://packages.debian.org/sid/sgml-data (you can replace "sid" by "lenny" or "squeeze"). This affects versions 2.0.3, 2.0.4, and 2.0.5 of the package sgml-data.
A little research reveals that doc-html-w3 _used_ to exist within Debian, but was first orphaned (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416033 ) and then removed (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460906 ). Based on those bug reports and more research, it appears the functional replacement for this package is now the package "w3-recs", which is available in all of old-stable, stable, and unstable in non-free. See for instance http://packages.debian.org/sid/w3-recs . I believe that sgml-data's dependency on doc-html-w3 should be removed (obviously), and furthermore probably replaced with a dependency on w3-recs instead. Because w3-recs is in non-free (as doc-html-w3 itself apparently used to be), this new dependency should probably also be a Suggests, just as the old one was. Further, if there are any other packages elsewhere in the archives with a dependency on doc-html-w3, those packages should probably also have that dependency replaced with one of a similar level on w3-recs (assuming it made sense to have the doc-html-w3 dependency in the first place). However, that's something out of scope for this bug report, of course. (Is there an easy way, using the various web services only, to see what packages depend on another package when that other package does not itself exist anymore? Should this be a lintian check or something? Note that I myself am not actually running Debian at this time, so I cannot use any command-line tools or data.) Thanks for your time. Hope this is of some use and interest. My apologies if this bug report is incorrectly formatted; I am formatting it by hand in e-mail. Let me know if there is further info I can provide. Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTimFdNEXqJQWZ=b7+tSN7x7K3pZ-9WB3xU=3b...@mail.gmail.com
