From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: This is a request for the gnome-doc-tools package, which is missing from Red Hat. This omission only affects developers who try to build Gnome 1.4 documentation from SGML sources. Currently there is no Red Hat package which contains the DTDs, style sheet, and tools needed to build Gnome documentation. Gnome 1.4 documentation used the Docbook 3.0 and 3.1 templates, which did not originally support PNG files. The gnome-doc-tools package patches the DocBook 3.0/3.1 to allow PNG files in documents. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-user-docs-1.4.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to build any Gnome 1.4 documentation which uses the PNG Variant DTD Actual Results: document doesn't build Additional info: The gnome-doc-tools package contains the SGML DTD's which modify the standard DocBook 3.0 and 3.1 DTD's to allow for PNG files to be included in DocBook SGML files. It also contains a style sheet for building Gnome documentation Red Hat already contains a modified version of this style sheet /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/docbook-utils.dsl so it probably isn't necessary to include the style sheet in the package.
I'm pretty sure we did have a way to build these docs at some point. We may have just added the PNG patches to our standard docbook rpms or something. In any case, 1.4 is in "obsolete don't touch it" mode; the applications from 1.4 have been gone for two releases. Adding a new package at this point doesn't make sense to me. You already have to download a lot of third-party stuff to get a working GNOME 1.4 with RHL 8 or RHL 9. Basically, issue no longer applies to the current release.
OK, Gnome 1.4 is history. An issue with the style sheet in docbook-utils (#90452) was turned away for a similar reason. We'll probably be upgrading to RHL 9.1 when it comes out in a few months, anyway. In the meantime, we've got one machine patched to build documentation using the DocBook 3.1 PNG Variant DTD. Thanks much.