Bug#1121314: Bug#1038804: galois: depends on superseded libxml++2.6

[Sébastien Noel]

Hi Gerardo

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 09:47:46 +0100 Gerardo Ballabio 
<gerardo.ballabio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> But, I've done a little more reading, and I seem to understand that
> libxml++4.0 requires GTK+ 4 (glibmm 2.68 comes with that). Porting
> from GTK+ 3 to 4 isn't trivial (I suppose I'll have to do it
> eventually, but I'd rather not do it now). Could you please package
> libxml++3.0 too? It should be a drop-in replacement for 2.6 and would
> make all those warnings about auto-ptr go away (and 2.6 could be set
> for removal once 3.0 is in).

It seems your use of libxml++ in galois is very simple (storing/reading 
prefs & highscores), and using libxml++5 (without glibmm) for that is 
not a problem.

Can you please test the patch in attachement that makes galois-0.8 build 
against libxml++-5.0-dev ?

best regards,
Sébastien