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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:04:01 +0000
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: ciftilib: depends on superseded libxml++2.6
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Source: ciftilib
Version: 1.6.0-5
Severity: normal
Tags: forky sid upstream
Control: block 1038804 by -1
Control: block -1 by 1121304
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libxml++2.6

Binaries produced by this source package depend on libxml++2.6, a C++ 
wrapper around libxml2.

libxml++2.6 is no longer maintained upstream (#1038804). It has been 
superseded by libxml++-3.0, which was itself superseded by libxml++-4.0 
(RFP: #819562) and libxml++-5.0 (RFP: #1121304).

If this package is ported to one of the newer libraries, packaging the new 
version will require packaging the new library first. In this case, 
I'm guessing libxml++-5.0 (which doesn't depend on glibmm) would 
probably be more appropriate than libxml++-5.0 (which does)?

Alternatively, it could be converted to use the C interface of libxml2 
directly, or use an unrelated XML implementation.

    smcv
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