libxml-sax-expat-perl not ready for upload

Roberto C. Sánchez roberto at connexer.com
Fri Jan 11 19:47:10 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:16:16PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > libxml-sax-expat-perl is not ready for upload, because it fails to
> > build.  Please check the changelog note I left for details.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the problem is this debian/rules line you added:
> 
>  perl -MXML::SAX -e "XML::SAX->add_parser(q(XML::SAX::Expat))->save_parsers()"
> 
My mistake.  I added the line *after* encountering the error after
finding it suggested in a forum.  I forgot to remove it before
committing.  Apologies.

> Upstream uses this to modify the XML::SAX configuration file
> ParserDetails.ini when installing.  The Debian way is to run
> update-perl-sax-parsers(8) from the postinst.
> 
I see.  But, if the build still fails how does doing something in the
postinst help?

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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