Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 04:11:29PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> From e83e66d3efab96b181526ce9feaad42adb024f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:40:43 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: docbook-xsl: Disable recursion in string substitution.
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>> 
>> Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/29782>.
>> Reported by Gábor Boskovits.
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/patches/docbook-xsl-nonrecursive-string-subst.patch: New file.
>> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Register it.
>> * gnu/packages/docbook.scm (docbook-xsl)[source](patches): Use it.
>> [native-inputs]: Add XZ.
>> [arguments]: Adjust PATH accordingly.
>
>>      (native-inputs `(("bzip2" ,bzip2)
>> +                     ("xz" ,xz)
>>                       ("tar" ,tar)))
>
> Does it still need bzip2?

XZ is (suddenly) needed because the source is repacked.  Will add a
comment about it.