On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 04:10:44PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > I'd like to get the blessing of the release team before requesting > removal of xerces25. xerces25 should be removed since it is a third > version of xerces, and there is nothing in the archive that has to > depend on it. At present, xerces25 has only two remaining reverse > dependencies. I filed bugs against both packages 40 days ago. The > reverse dependencies are xalan (bug 339396) and anon-proxy (bug > 339405). > xalan, as you know, hasn't yet had is c2a rename. The version of > xalan in sid is two upstream versions out of date. The latest > upstream xalan works with xerces27, which I hope will be the only > xerces 2.x in etch. anon-proxy probably doesn't have any code that > depends upon a specific version of xerces. I can just NMU it to > depend on xerces27. > Can you think of any reason why I should not proceed to NMU anon-proxy > and upgrade the bug I filed against xalan to RC? Most likely this > would result in temporary removal of xalan from testing since > packaging a new upstream version is out of scope for an NMU without > the maintainer's blessing. No objections. There's already an RC bug on xalan anyway; and ISTR seeing somewhere a suggestion that xalan should be removed from the archive completely (though this isn't in bug #339279 where I thought it was). Please get rid of xerces25. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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