New docbook-xsl (1.79.2) breaks existing XSL files

[Zero King]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:25:47AM +0100, Leonardo Brondani Schenkel wrote:
>Ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55255
>
>DocBook XSLs changed their URIs from `sourceforge.net` to 
>`github.com`, which results in existing XML files using the former 
>URIs not able to find the local copy installed by the port. This will 
>trigger a download from the URI or fail if net access is disabled.

They switched to cdn.docbook.org.

>This could break many existing ports and user XML files. Neomutt for 
>example can no longer be built: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55253
>
>I'm writing to the list because this change in upstream might have far 
>reaching implications, and this port has no official maintainer, so I 
>want to bring as much visibility to the issue as possible and discuss 
>a solution.

From https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55255:
>make both URIs be supported somehow (not sure if this is even possible)

Fix proposed in https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1004.
Not sure if this is the best solution though.

-- 
Best regards,
Zero King
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