Jenkins showed that pkg-config was not pulled in by installing libxml2-dev. Personally I think it might make sense to add it as a depends, but I don't want to make the decision for the package maintainer. Instead I made sure that it is installed for the test.
Updated patch attached.
diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog --- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog 2012-07-22 14:48:05.000000000 +0200 +++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog 2012-10-10 08:16:04.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +libxml2 (2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low + + * debian/tests/control: added pkg-config as depends for the test. + Change forwarded to Debian as bug 690047. + + -- Daniel Holbach <daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:15:16 +0200 + +libxml2 (2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low + + * debian/tests/build, debian/tests/control: add test to check + that code can be easily built against libxml2, test some core + functionality too. + * debian/control: enable autopkgtest. + + -- Daniel Holbach <daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:49:15 +0200 + libxml2 (2.8.0+dfsg1-5) unstable; urgency=low [ Daniel Veillard ] diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control --- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control 2012-07-22 14:50:34.000000000 +0200 +++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control 2012-10-09 15:28:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Source: libxml2 Priority: optional Section: libs -Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-p...@lists.alioth.debian.org> +Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> +XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-p...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Uploaders: Aron Xu <a...@debian.org>, YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com> Standards-Version: 3.9.3 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), perl, dh-autoreconf, autotools-dev, @@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ Homepage: http://xmlsoft.org/ Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/debian-xml-sgml/libxml2.git Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-xml-sgml/libxml2.git +XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest Package: libxml2 Priority: standard @@ -144,3 +146,18 @@ This package contains the files needed to use the GNOME XML library in Python programs for use with the Python debug interpreter. +Package: libxml2-udeb +XC-Package-Type: udeb +Architecture: any +Section: debian-installer +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Description: GNOME XML library - minimal runtime + XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language. + A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in + a certain class of documents (eg HTML). XML lets you define your + own customized markup languages for many classes of document. It + can do this because it's written in SGML, the international standard + metalanguage for markup languages. + . + This is a minimal package for use in debian-installer that yields a + library providing an extensive API to handle such XML data files. diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/build libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/build --- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/build 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/build 2012-10-09 13:47:35.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# autopkgtest check: Build and run a program against libxml2, to verify that the +# headers and pkg-config file are installed correctly +# (C) 2012 Canonical Ltd. +# Author: Daniel Holbach <daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com> + +set -e + +WORKDIR=$(mktemp -d) +trap "rm -rf $WORKDIR" 0 INT QUIT ABRT PIPE TERM +cd $WORKDIR +cat <<EOF > xmltest.c +#include <libxml/parser.h> + +int +main(void) +{ + + xmlNodePtr n; + xmlDocPtr doc; + xmlNodePtr cur; + + doc = xmlNewDoc(BAD_CAST "1.0"); + n = xmlNewNode(NULL, BAD_CAST "root"); + xmlNodeSetContent(n, BAD_CAST "content"); + xmlDocSetRootElement(doc, n); + + cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc); + if (xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *) "root")) + return (1); + xmlFreeDoc(doc); + return (0); + +} +EOF + +gcc -o xmltest xmltest.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libxml-2.0` +echo "build: OK" +[ -x xmltest ] +./xmltest +echo "run: OK" diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/control libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/control --- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/control 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/tests/control 2012-10-10 08:15:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Tests: build +Depends: libxml2-dev, build-essential, pkg-config
