[xml/sgml-pkgs] Expat 2.0.1 packaging

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:04:14AM -0400, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan at fushizen.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:58:19PM -0600, ardo at ardolabs.com wrote:
> > >> We also need to run this by the release team, as they like to know which
> > >> libraries are upgrading.  And since this is a very special case, we need
> > >> to make sure that what we're going to do works.
> > >
> > > Do you first want to test a possible solution or should we bring this up
> > > on debian-release/devel soon?
> > 
> > Let's wait until Bryan has the results of his inquiry so we now how bad
> > the damage is.
> 
> It looks like there's no binary package in sid/main on i386 which has NEEDED
> libexpat.so.0 in its dynamic section. I haven't checked other
> architectures. OTOH, there's only 87 packages which build-depend
> directly on libexpat-dev or libexpat1-dev, rather than the several
> thousand I thought before (I was using apt-rdepend incorrectly).

Considering Debian supports partial upgrades, it would be safer to also
check if binary packages in etch are free of NEEDED libexpat.so.0

Mike