[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#1073508: libxml2: just another API+ABI break; please bump soname

[Aron Xu]

Control: tags -1 - pending

Hi,

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:10:57 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Glaser
<t.glaser at qvest-digital.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> >Better prevent this from landing in trixie until the package
> >gets its soname bumped.
>
> In fact, unless someone has the tuits to diff every single
> API and ABI surface of the package between trixie (ideally
> bookworm) and sid versions, it would be best if any package
> built against libxml2 >2.12 be binNMU’d in trixie, and once
> 2.12 is renamed to libxml3 or something, they are to be rebuilt
> in sid anyway.
>
> Who knows what other API and ABI breaks are hiding herein…
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
>

It looks that this libxml2 update is causing more troubles than
expected, I would like to ask for your opinion whether it's better to
revert to an older version for the moment?

The LibreOffice break stuff isn't a real API/ABI break, it was caused
by default build options being changed so that some features were
intentionally disabled by upstream... I can try to dig further about
the surface of API/ABI changes, but I have to say that would take some
time to complete.

Thanks,
Aron