Bug#808211: saxonhe: Versions 9.6 and 9.7 should be installable at the same time

[Eugene Zhukov]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:50 AM, tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello Eugene,
>
> I'm working on packaging checkstyle 8.8 which requires SaxonHE 9.8.  I
> put together a package for the newer saxonhe (in experimental) and I can
> successful build the r-deps within Debian using ratt.  However,
> comparing the 9.7 and 9.8 libraries with japi-compliance-checker, I'm
> reluctant to upload the package to unstable because there are so many
> breaking changes between the versions.
>
> Do you have any advice or thoughts about what we should do for buster?
>
Hi tony,

Thanks for working on this!
I think we need to ping upstream about missing hej/data folder in the
last tag. Without it xml-maven-plugin or epubcheck won't work [0].
My other concern is Schematron upgrade [1]. We might actually want to
package SaxonHE 9.8.0.7 or newer to support both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0.

[0] https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck/issues/674#issuecomment-348102028
[1] https://github.com/Schematron/schematron/issues/55

Eugene