Bug#1121314: Bug#1038804: galois: depends on superseded libxml++2.6

[Gerardo Ballabio]

Hello Sébastien,
many thanks for the patch. I've just tried it and it works.
Now just allow me a few days to build the package and get it sponsored.

Gerardo

Il giorno gio 12 feb 2026 alle ore 13:11 Sébastien Noel
<sebastien at twolife.be> ha scritto:
>
> 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