Re: switching to libxml2
On 23 Apr 2001 20:58:57 +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> libglade and some other packages still depend on the very old libxml1.
> i just compiled libglade0 (and libglade-gnome0) by simply installing
> libxml2-dev and rebuilding. anyway, porting a package from libxml1 to
> libxml2 is quite easy, so i am about to file bugs agains those buggy
> packages. i am also quite ready to nmu if the authors don't rebuild
> but what's the procedure in this case? i don't want to displease
> anyone, but this dependency on the old library is annoying quite some
> of us.
>
> ciao,
> federico
>
> p.s. the problem is that libxml1-dev confliscts with libxml2-dev and
> the maintainmer does not want to fix that because packages should not
> use an old and deprecated library. obviously i agree.
libxml1 is not deprecated. It is the xml library used by the GNOME 1.x
platform. Until GNOME 2 is released, libxml1 will be in active use.
There are significant source-level differences between applications that
use the two, so a porting effort would be a large amount of work.
That said, recent versions of the two xml libraries are made to coexist.
There shouldn't be any files in common between the two. Any conflict
between libxml1-dev and libxml2-dev is an artificial one.
Peter
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