[xmlroff] Re: Debian xmlroff package

[Oliver K. <ok...@ya...>]

I wrote:
> I maintain one other Debian package so could try to produce one for
> xmlroff if nobody else is planning to do it.

I've just had a look at what it would involve.

PangoXSL appears to be released under the GPL and, if my understanding
is correct, that means that xmlroff can't be linked against it unless it
to was released under the GPL. Would it perhaps make sense to re-licence
PangoXSL under the LGPL. Apart from anything else, that could help
achieve the stated objective of PangoXSL - to be merged with Pango -
given that Pango itself is released under the LGPL.

I think the strange nuclear clause in the xmlroff licence is not a
problem for Debian inclusion assuming that the intention is to disclaim
warranty rather than to discriminate against people running nuclear
facilities by not letting them use the software. I'll need to check on
this, though.

Does PangoXSL's configure script need to check for libxml2? The library
doesn't appear to actually link to libxml2. Also, make distclean should
remove config.log and it'd be nice if the config.guess and config.sub
files were updated with newer versions.

Anyway, an initial package for pangoxsl is at:
  http://www.geocities.com/okiddle/pangoxsl.zip
Would be good if anyone has a chance to look at it and see if they can
make any improvements. Sorry for using zip - geocities is fussy. The zip
file contains the package source and i386 .debs.

Oliver


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