Subject: More irrelevant debian libxml2 news
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 14:28:44 CST
----- Forwarded message from Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@lysator.liu.se> -----
From: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:06:20 +0100
To: Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>, 86508@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#86508: libxml2-dev should not conflict with libxml-dev anymore
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On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:14:41PM +0100, Roderich Schupp wrote:
> Package: libxml2-dev
> Version: 2.3.0-1
>
> > libxml2 (2.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> > * New upstream release (closes: #86379)
> > For some reason the library has changed name from libxml to libxml2 and
> > the config script from libxml-config to libxml2-config. I am providing
> > symbolic links to the old names, hopefully this will prevent stuff from
> > breaking.
> >
> > -- Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org> Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:25:43 +0100
>
> Yikes, the whole point of the name changes libxml -> libxml2 etc is that
> libxml1 and libxml2 can peacefully coexist, both runtime as well as
> -dev!
> The symlinks you introduce spoil this. Leave them out and also the
> `Conflicts/Replaces: libxml-dev' and file bugs on the users of libxml2
> instead.
> Since all of Gnome doesn't (and can't yet) use libxml2, AFAICS there are
> only a few:
>
> hotkeys
> imagemagick (already uses libxml2 in latest Debian version)
> kdebase
> libxml++
> minidom
> php4 (in php4-domxml)
My symlinks are a good way of keeping things working (which is my top
priority), if I uploaded a new package without them the above packages (and
more, see apt-cache showpkg libxml2) would break.
I will file bugs and remove the conflicts when all packages use
libxml2-config but this will probably take some time, but eveything will
work during this period.
I have put some thought in to this and I am pretty sure it is the best way.
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