clone 458713 -1 -2 reassign -1 libxml-atom-perl 0.25-2 retitle -1 libxml-atom-perl: Please depend on libxml-libxml-perl (>= 1.61) | libxml-xpath-perl severity -1 wishlist reassign -2 libxml-twig-perl 1:3.32-1 retitle -2 libxml-twig-perl: Please depend on libxml-xpathengine-perl | libxml-xpath-perl severity -2 wishlist block 458713 by -1 block 458713 by -2 thanks
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:39:27PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > It looks like the libxml-xpath-perl package should be phased out and > eventually get removed from Debian. The module is unmaintained upstream > (last release was in 2003), and there's a maintained, faster and less > buggy alternative available in libxml-libxml-perl. > The codebase in XML::XPath has also been forked upstream into > XML::XPathEngine with a different API. The libxml-xpathengine-perl > package entered Debian in late 2007. > The reverse dependencies of libxml-xpath-perl are currently > > * libxml-atom-perl: alternatively supports libxml-libxml-perl > * libxml-twig-perl: alternatively supports libxml-xpathengine-perl I'm cloning new bugs for these two. Please consider moving away from libxml-xpath-perl in favour of the other alternative. In both cases, the other alternative is actually the preferred one in the upstream code. Note that XML::LibXML::XPathContext only got into the XML::LibXML distribution in 1.61. Cheers, -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
