[New RFS] Re: [xml/sgml] Re: New upstream releases for libxml2 and libxslt, a RFS

[Mike Hommey]

Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> While building libxml I got the following warning:
> 
>     dpkg-deb: building package `libxml1' in `../libxml1_1.8.17-6_i386.deb'.
>     warning, in file `debian/libxml-dev/DEBIAN/control' near line 7 package `libxml-dev':
>      `Conflicts' field, reference to `libxml2-dev':
>       `<' is obsolete, use `<=' or `<<' instead
>     dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)
>   
> and lintian said
> 
>     W: libxml-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml .

This is bug #130184 and I still haven't decided what to do with it...

>     W: libxml-dev: obsolete-relation-form conflicts: libxml2-dev (< 2.6.10-2)

Woops... I'll have to change that to <<

> For libxml2 I got the following warnings:
> 
>     dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
>     dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
>     dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}

These are standard warning messages. I leave the ${misc:Depends} for the 
case it is used some day... (which is why it was done for...)

> I've signed and uploaded the packages, and tagged SVN.

Thanks

Mike