[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] xerces transition

[Jay Berkenbilt]

Frank Mehnert <Frank.Mehnert at Sun.COM> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Meskes wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>> > To all maintainers of packages that have dependencies on libxerces27
>> > or libxerces28:
>> >
>> > If you do not have a build dependency on libxerces27-dev or
>> > libxerces28-dev, then please disregard this false positive.
>> > Otherwise, read on.
>>
>> virtualbox-ose only indiretly build-depends on libxerces*-dev through
>> libxalan110-dev.
>
> The next release of VirtualBox (expected in a few weeks) will not
> depend on xalan/xerces anymore but it will depend on libxml2 instead.
> The SVN version already changed this dependency.

Thanks.  I've removed it from the list of packages I'll be looking at.

--ay