[xml/sgml-pkgs] Too many xerces versions in sarge: can we get rid of some?

[Steve Langasek]

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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.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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