Re: Will the real expat please stand up
Hi,
I'm the current maintainer of the expat and XML::Parser packages.
At least the new version of expat will make it into Debian. Since
there are some problems with the other XML Perl modules when using
the new version of XML::Parser I'll probably hold off on it until
these problems are fixed. That means we will have to version of
expat in Debian.
Getting the other packages with their own version of expat to use
the new shared lib version probably has to be handled upstream, due
to the new API. For now the respective maintainers should probably
change their packages to install the expat lib in a private dir or
"remove" it from the package and get dependent on libxmltok1(-dev).
Once I get the new version of expat in Debian I'll work with the other
maintainers to see how we can work this out. Or if you want to can
contact them and work with them.
Thanks,
Ardo
Roderich Schupp (rsch@ExperTeam.de) wrote:
> Hi,
> there are several packages that contain their own copy
> of the (XML parser) expat though there is
> a Debian package with both shared and static libraries
> (libxmltok1/libxmltok1-dev). What's worse, some even
> try to install the expat libraries or headers, sometimes
> overriding the "official" ones. Recent offenders include
> w3c-libwww (tries to install libxmltok.a and libxmlparse.a
> into /usr/lib) and libxode1-dev (tries to install
> xmlparse.h into /usr/include). Besides, there is a new
> version of expat on Sourceforge (now containing "official"
> shared library support in one libexpat.so), that is needed
> for the latest Perl XML::Parser, but that isn't packaged
> for Debian.
>
> Cheers, Roderich
> --
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> for chaos and madness await thee at its end."
>
> Roderich Schupp mailto:rsch@ExperTeam.de
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>
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