[xml/sgml-pkgs] moving on to expat 2.*

[Stefan Sobernig]

Dear Ardo,
Dear Debian XML/SGML Group,

I am (co-) responsible for some packaging activities over at
the Debian Tcl/Tk Team which aim at wrapping-up http://openacs.org in 
terms of Debian Packages. A key infrastructure component of OpenACS is 
tDOM (http://www.tdom.org) which requires expat ...

tDOM has been available as Debian package for quite a time, but was 
abandoned. We are now resurrecting it and contributing it to the Debian 
Tcl/Tk collection of packages.

Up to now, the tDOM distribution embeds its own copy of expat (1.95.* 
and 2.0.1) which is not acceptable when packaging it up for Debian. More 
recent version of tDOM (0.8.2+) moved on to expat 2.0.1. This raises the 
issue of the availability of expat 2 in Debian. Are there any plans to 
provide a libexpat2 package in the very near future? What are your plans?

Thanks for illuminating me on that very issue!

//stefan

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