Bug#1072012: libxml-libxml-perl: new upstream release 2.0210, addressing test failures with libxml2 >= 2.11

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 29 May 2024 14:16:47 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:

> > They all seem to fail with:
> > Warning: program compiled against libxml 212 using older 209
> >
> > and this comes from libxml:
> >
> >     if ((myversion / 100) < (version / 100)) {
> >         xmlGenericError(xmlGenericErrorContext,
> >                 "Warning: program compiled against libxml %d using older %d\n",
> >                 (version / 100), (myversion / 100));
> >     }
> >
> >
> > Not sure if this is should be fixed in libxml2 or if we should add an
> > artifical dependency on a newer libxml2 (to avoid testing against the
> > version in testing). The former sounds more logic to me.
> 
> Although it looks trivial to remove the warning from libxml2, I'm
> reluctant since this piece of code existed for a very long time, a
> random check shows that version 2.2.3 (in 2000) has the logic:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/blob/04698d9e1c56467007fcbb9472e5db67cf5938f5/parserInternals.c#L66

Maybe an alternative is to add
    Breaks: libxml-libxml-perl (<< 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-2~)
to libxml2?


Cheers,
gregor

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