Re: Possible upcoming problems with SGMLSpm

On Fri, 2026-02-13 at 15:47 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 2/13/26 3:06 PM, "Douglas R. Reno" ([email protected] via blfs-dev 
> Mailing List) wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> > 
> > When I'm working on the pre-release activities for a new release of BLFS, one of the 
> > things that I need to do is check the Perl Modules and Perl Dependencies for their 
> > latest versions. In most cases, the Perl Modules section is perfect, and this release 
> > was no exception - but we need to check those anyway because we can miss versions of 
> > modules if it's maintainer changes (since you download a Perl module from it's 
> > authors space within CPAN).
> > 
> > While I was checking for the latest versions, I discovered a problem with SGMLSpm. 
> > This module is no longer listed within the MetaCPAN database. It is still 
> > downloadable for now, but we should keep an eye out for possible download issues in 
> > the future since it's no longer showing within their database.
> > 
> > Note that the SGMLSpm module is primarily used as part of the docbook SGML stack, 
> > particularly being used in docbook-utils. It is also used by fontconfig and 
> > PostgreSQL if present to assist with generating documentation.

Also SGMLSpm is required by po4a that many LFS translation projects use
in the infrastructure.

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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>

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