Bug#841425: dia-common: Fails to install with old xml-core.

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

Control: tags -1 -newcomer
Control: severity -1 grave
Control: reassign -1 xml-core 0.14
Control: retitle -1 dh_installxmlcatalogs: xmlcorever must be increased to 0.14 for sort
Control: affects -1 dia-common


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 04:05:52PM +0200, Steven De Herdt wrote:
> Package: dia-common
> Version: 0.97.3+git20160930-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: newcomer
> 
> Dear Maintainer,

Hi Steven,

> I tried to upgrade dia, with an old version (0.13+nmu2) of xml-core installed.
> It failed with the message "Unknown option: sort" and then the usage 
> instructions of update-xmlcatalog.  It appears this sort-option was added to 
> 0.14, upgrading my version of xml-core let me upgrade dia successfully.
> So I propose to bump the version dia-common requires accordingly.
> 
> Presumably the other dependants of xml-core are in the same situation, as
> this new option is used by dh_installxmlcatalogs.

thanks for your report, this should actually be fixed in xml-core.

The dependency on xml-core is generated automatically by 
dh_installxmlcatalogs.

Fixing it will include two parts:
1. fixed xml-core in unstable
2. rebuilding all affected packages with the fixed xml-core

> Thanks for maintaining!
> -Steven

cu
Adrian

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