Bug#458713: libxml-xpath-perl: should be phased out in favour of other alternatives

[Niko Tyni]

clone 458713 -1 -2
reassign -1 libxml-atom-perl 0.25-2
retitle  -1 libxml-atom-perl: Please depend on libxml-libxml-perl (>= 1.61) | libxml-xpath-perl 
severity -1 wishlist
reassign -2 libxml-twig-perl 1:3.32-1
retitle  -2 libxml-twig-perl: Please depend on libxml-xpathengine-perl | libxml-xpath-perl
severity -2 wishlist
block 458713 by -1
block 458713 by -2
thanks

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:39:27PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
 
> It looks like the libxml-xpath-perl package should be phased out and
> eventually get removed from Debian. The module is unmaintained upstream
> (last release was in 2003), and there's a maintained, faster and less
> buggy alternative available in libxml-libxml-perl.

> The codebase in XML::XPath has also been forked upstream into
> XML::XPathEngine with a different API. The libxml-xpathengine-perl
> package entered Debian in late 2007.

> The reverse dependencies of libxml-xpath-perl are currently
> 
>  * libxml-atom-perl: alternatively supports libxml-libxml-perl
>  * libxml-twig-perl: alternatively supports libxml-xpathengine-perl

I'm cloning new bugs for these two. Please consider moving away from
libxml-xpath-perl in favour of the other alternative.

In both cases, the other alternative is actually the preferred one in
the upstream code.

Note that XML::LibXML::XPathContext only got into the XML::LibXML
distribution in 1.61.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org