Some of your Debian packages might need attention

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:38:43AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
 
> Niko, as you are clearly more involved in this than me: You submitted
> two patches to #419757. The bug report also mentions upgrading to a
> newer upstream version. Does the upstream version include the patches
> for this problem? 

Yes, upstream 0.16 fixes #419757 and should make libxml-filter-sort-perl
build again (#419689). The other patch was a minor warning issue (#419758)
already fixed in 0.15.

However, the situation is a bit more complicated than that. The 0.14
upload also caused #405186. I have sent a patch for it upstream (CPAN
#26588), but for some reason it wasn't included in the recent upstream
0.16 release.

Furthermore, as described in #430118, the parser used by XML::SAX is now
almost always XML::SAX::PurePerl (included in libxml-sax-perl), which is
generally not desirable. Even the XML::SAX upstream maintainer doesn't
recommend using the PurePerl parser; see his comments in CPAN #26588.

Thus the main blocker to get libxml-sax-perl into a decent state is really
#430118, and fixing it would probably make the other bugs irrelevant
since everyone would rush to use XML::SAX::Expat.

In any case, uploading 0.16 would certainly be an improvement to the
current situation.

Hope I got the bug numbers right,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at iki.fi