[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#1102294: libxml2 1.41.x for experimental (Re: libxml2 updates for trixie+1)

[Matthias Klose]

On 09.04.25 10:06, Aron Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> as a second step, I'm uploading the current libxml2 source package
>> renamed to libxml2.9 to experimental (delayed 5), renaming the -dev and
>> -tools packages (example packaging in the same PPA).
>>
>> These packages can be used as a fall-back until all packages are updated
>> to use libxml2 2.14.x.
>>
> 
> I find myself a bit reluctant to update libxml2 to 2.14.x at this
> moment even in experimental since we are not going to release trixie
> with that version. There's still plenty of time before actually
> kicking off some sort of transition. How do you think about using
> libxml2.14 for the newer version at the moment to facilitate test
> builds?

Does this make a difference, if we change the source name to libxml2.14, 
and keep the binary names?

Please also note, there already is a libxml2 (2.13.x) in experimental, 
not sure what you gain by not updating. Using 2.14.x instead of 2.13.x 
is the finally changed soname.

> However, this does not mean I'm strongly against the proposed approach
> but rather discussing for which is the better way.

I'm not sure, if I understand ... test rebuilds with changed binary 
names would be useless ...

I already had done a first test rebuild with 2.12.x in
https://launchpad.net/~doko/+archive/ubuntu/libxml2/+packages

Matthias