Bug#1119026: please drop the upper version dependency on libxml2

Matthias Klose doko at debian.org
Sun Oct 26 08:58:26 GMT 2025


Package: src:libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-6
Severity: important
Tags: sid forky
X-Debbugs-CC: Debian XML/SGML Group 
<debian-xml-sgml-pkgs at lists.alioth.debian.org>

In 
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1682499/accepted-libxml2-2151dfsg-03-source-into-unstable/
I disabled the warnings and errors about the libxml2 version, according 
to the discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/1072012.  Let's assume that 
this is not necessary anymore with the bumped soname, and that further 
updates will bump the soname again with ABI incompatibilities.

Please drop the upper version dependency on libxml2.  You may want to 
have still a dependency on libxml2-16 (>= 2.15), because the old 2.14.x 
still has the warnings/errors enabled, and the autopkg tests will fail 
before libxml2 2.15.x migrates.

Afaics, there is no need for an upload before libxml 2.15.x migrates to 
testing.

The same applies for libxml-libxslt-perl, not filing another bug report 
for that one.



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