On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:53:08PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 09:41:53PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > >> How strongly do you feel about having only one version of xerces in > >> sarge? If we have only one version, having it be xerces25 is > >> definitely the easiest way to achieve that. > > Supporting two versions of a library in stable is not unreasonable. It's > > the "three or more" scenario we have currently that bothers me. > xerces24 is gone, and I've now requested removal of xerces23 and > closed its outstanding bugs. I didn't bother creating the dummy RC > bug since I'm expecting the removal request to be answered promptly, > but I can do that if you want (or you can) if you want to remove it > from sarge rather than waiting for it to happen automatically. > Since xerces25 is needed for libxml-xerces-perl, let's plan to have > xerces25 and xerces26 in sarge. I'll close the bug against xalan > since there's no reason to force it to use a version of xerces it > doesn't want to. For the other three packages, I'll still encourage > the users to depend upon xerces26 if they can. Who knows -- maybe > XML::Xerces 2.6.0 will be released soon (not likely) and Berin will > package xalan 1.9 before sarge. Then we can dump xerces25 without > bothering gdal, qgis, and anon-proxy. (I'm not holding my breath.) > Anyway, unless you object, I'll move forward with this plan. This plan sounds great, Jay. Thanks for your work on this. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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