Bug#327659: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#327659: libxml2: 2.6.21-1 breaks xsltproc

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:28:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh <rleigh at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:08:04AM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > 
> > as we don't seem to have the problem, I suggest you try to build the
> > source package on
> > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml2/ (Version
> > 2.6.21). 
> 
> I've reviewed the diffs between the unpacked source trees of the Debian
> 2.6.20-1 ==> 2.6.21-1 and Debian 2.6.21-1 ==> Ubuntu 2.6.21-0ubuntu1.
> 
> Some observations:
> 
> 1) The ubuntu package does not include the patch to error.c.  This
>    looks like it might be related to the XPath failures.

It shouldn't. It only impacts error handler for validation errors... and
should be removed, actually.

> 2) The ubuntu version has some somewhat disturbing omissions in
>    debian/rules (shlibs versioning in particular, but also
>    missing deprecated package removal).  It looks like this needs
>    syncing properly with the Debian packaging.
> 
> 3) The Debian package re-bootstrapped the autotools with automake1.8,
>    but upstream used automake1.9.  The use of automake1.8 in
>    autogen.sh needs to be replaced by automake1.9 (and the build-deps
>    also need updating).
> 
> I'll build a copy on powerpc tonight with (1) and (3) fixed, and see
> if this helps.
> 
> Either way, (2) and (3) need fixing in Ubuntu and Debian, respectively.

Sure, but that's not likely to be a real problem...

Mike