Re: switching to libxml2
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:42:28 +0200, Davide Puricelli <apurice@tin.it> said:
Davide> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:37:33PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, 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
>>
>> 1. file only wishlist bugs
>> 2. don't do NMUs without the permission of the maintainers - what
>> you
>> want is only a wish, not a real bug
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Are there any real problems or what does "annoyning" mean?
>>
>> > ciao, federico
>>
>> cu Adrian
>>
>> --
>>
>> Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern
>> weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
>>
>>
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Davide> There're real troubles: for example look at sodipodi; it uses
Davide> libglade-gnome0, so I need libxml-dev (libglade-gnome0-dev
Davide> depends on it), but now I need to compile it against libxml2
Davide> to close some bugs, but I can't because libxml2-dev conflicts
Davide> with libxml-dev.
Then convince the libxml maintainer to remove this conflict. It
doesn't need to exist. Each lib installs its libs and headers in
different places.
Jim
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