Bug#1106888: transition: libxml2, libxslt, xmlsec1 - one transition to bind them all

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 08:02:05AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 22.08.25 13:00, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 09:16:12AM +0000, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > > Just an update: libxml2-16, libxslt and libxmlsec1-1 have all
> > > migrated.  There are a couple of binNMUs still building, but now it's
> > > just a matter of fixing or removing the remaining packages.
> > > ...
> > 
> > Is there a reason why src:libxml2.9 exists, instead of just having a
> > cruft library in testing as with other transitions?
> > 
> > If there is not, an RC bug might autoremove it back out of testing.
> > 
> > At some point removal would then also be good, since it confuses the
> > BTS in two ways:
> > - bugs reported against the binary package libxml2 in stable might
> >    show up at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libxml2.9
> > - src:foo and existing but foo built from src:bar is not handled well
> 
> the libxml.so.2 is part of the LSB standard.

We removed support for the obsolete LSB standard in stretch.

cu
Adrian