On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 06:20:05PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 01:13:14PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > libxml++2.6 is no longer maintained upstream (#1038804). It has been
> > superseded by libxml++-3.0, which was itself superseded by libxml++-4.0
> > (RFP: #819562) and libxml++-5.0 (RFP: #1121304).
> >
> > If this package is ported to one of the newer libraries, packaging the new
> > version will require packaging the new library first. I haven't marked
> > #819562 and #1121304 as blockers for this bug, because I don't know which
> > one would be more appropriate.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have the spare cycles currently to contemplate
> packaging a newer libxml++.
>
> Pinot's upstream README lists the oldest tested libxml++ as 3.2.0 and
> changing to that would at least be a step towards being able to remove
> libxml++2.6.
I think I had misunderstood here as libxml++-3.0 doesn't seem to be
packaged either.
Cheers,
Olly
