Package: xml-core Version: 0.18 Severity: wishlist This is a follow-up on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660687#15 as it makes more sense in its own bug report rather than on the ITA bug report.
The following content was from Daniel Leidert, previous maintainer of the package: ------------------------ It is more or less a similar bug to #477751. Every package update re-installs all entries to /etc/xml/catalog and /etc/xml/$package.xml. But this is a policy violation. Changes done to the above files are not preserved. Further we create and manipulate the system catalog by a self-written tool. IMO the rewrite must finish in - shipping the /etc/xml/$package.xml file instead of creating it (so dh_installxmlcatalogs will simply put a file into etc/xml/) - and registering it with the system catalog by the nextCatalog entry instead of putting delegate* entries in the system catalog directly (this should be done in a way, that is compatible with using the xmlcatalog tool from libxml) - if a user decides he wants to unregister a catalog, he can simply remove the relevant nextCatalog [1] entry in /etc/xml/catalog - and this change must be preserved during package updates. [1] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html#s.nextcatalog ------------------------
