diff -Nru docbook-utils-0.6.14.orig/frontends/docbook.in docbook-utils-0.6.14/frontends/docbook.in
--- docbook-utils-0.6.14.orig/frontends/docbook.in	2002-11-02 18:45:10.000000000 +0100
+++ docbook-utils-0.6.14/frontends/docbook.in	2009-01-07 01:33:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -17,20 +17,18 @@
 			head -n 1 |
 			sed 's/^.*DocBook\( XML\)\? V\([0-9][\.0-9]*\).*$/\2/'`
 	SGML_CATALOG=
-	for f in "${SGML_CATALOGS_DIR}/${SGML_XML}-docbook-${SGML_VERSION}"*".cat"
-	do 
-	  if [ -f "$f" ]
-	  then
-	    SGML_CATALOG=$f
-	    break
-	  fi
-	done
-	if [ -z "$SGML_CATALOG" ]
+	if [ -f ${SGML_CATALOGS_DIR}/catalog ]
 	then
-	  if [ "${SGML_XML}" != "sgml" ]
-	  then SGML_CATALOG=${SGML_CATALOGS_DIR}/${SGML_XML}-docbook.cat
-	  else SGML_CATALOG=${SGML_CATALOGS_DIR}/catalog
-	  fi
+	  SGML_CATALOG=${SGML_CATALOGS_DIR}/catalog
+	else
+	  for f in "${SGML_CATALOGS_DIR}/${SGML_XML}-docbook-${SGML_VERSION}"*".cat"
+	  do 
+	    if [ -f "$f" ]
+	    then
+	      SGML_CATALOG=$f
+	      break
+	    fi
+	  done
 	fi
 	echo "$SGML_CATALOG"
 	;;