[arch-general] libxml2 out of date
Hi,
Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)?
Regards
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote:
Hi,
Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)?
Regards
As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.
Hi
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb hussam@visp.net.lb wrote:
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote:
Hi,
Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)?
Regards
As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.
Do you have list of applications that are broken? Could it be "fixed" by recompiling those applications against 2.9.X?
I see that upcoming ubuntu is using 2.9.0 http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=raring&keywords=libxml2 and I assume their applications work fine
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:05:34PM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.
Do you have list of applications that are broken? Could it be "fixed" by recompiling those applications against 2.9.X?
I see that upcoming ubuntu is using 2.9.0 http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=raring&keywords=libxml2 and I assume their applications work fine
As does openSUSE 12.3: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_list
and Fedora 18 and 19: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libxml2.git/
Regards
Hi
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb hussam@visp.net.lb wrote:
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote:
Hi,
Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)?
Regards
As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.
I believe the next question is "Hussam, Jan is there anything we can do to make libxml2 upgrade happen?"
Hi
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomozov@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb hussam@visp.net.lb wrote:
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote:
Hi,
Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)?
Regards
As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.
I believe the next question is "Hussam, Jan is there anything we can do to make libxml2 upgrade happen?"
Let me put this statement other way: I have some time that I would like to contribute it back to Linux Arch. Trying to resolve libxml2 upgrade issues seems a useful task. Could anyone provide me more information about libxml upgrade problems? Jan, you are the maintainer should know it. If it brakes apps then could you give me the list? I'll try to look at it.
On 05/02/2013 03:20 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Hi
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomozov@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb hussam@visp.net.lb wrote:
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote:
Hi,
Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)?
Regards
As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.
I believe the next question is "Hussam, Jan is there anything we can do to make libxml2 upgrade happen?"
Let me put this statement other way: I have some time that I would like to contribute it back to Linux Arch. Trying to resolve libxml2 upgrade issues seems a useful task. Could anyone provide me more information about libxml upgrade problems? Jan, you are the maintainer should know it. If it brakes apps then could you give me the list? I'll try to look at it.
I would like to help there too. I wanted to email the maintainer about libxslt and cyrus-sasl packages and see how can I help to resolve the issues that prevent the packages from being upgraded. Count me in.
FYI, I've already upgraded those packages on another distro and they appear to work flawlessly.
I believe the next question is "Hussam, Jan is there anything we can do to make libxml2 upgrade happen?"
Let me put this statement other way: I have some time that I would like to contribute it back to Linux Arch. Trying to resolve libxml2 upgrade issues seems a useful task. Could anyone provide me more information about libxml upgrade problems? Jan, you are the maintainer should know it. If it brakes apps then could you give me the list? I'll try to look at it.
Anatol,
Here is a source package building libxml2 2.9.1. It took less than 5 minutes to modify the official repo PKGBUILD and build the new version.
I haven't tested all software depending on libxml2 but I have installed it myself and so far so good everything works perfectly for me.
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Anatol,
Here is a source package building libxml2 2.9.1. It took less than 5 minutes to modify the official repo PKGBUILD and build the new version.
I haven't tested all software depending on libxml2 but I have installed it myself and so far so good everything works perfectly for me.
Something stripped out the bin attachement. Here is a diff:
--- /var/abs/extra/libxml2/PKGBUILD 2013-05-03 18:05:54.000000000 -0400 +++ PKGBUILD 2013-05-07 14:16:46.141882166 -0400 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # Contributor: John Proctor jproctor@prium.net
pkgname=libxml2 -pkgver=2.8.0 +pkgver=2.9.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="XML parsing library, version 2" arch=(i686 x86_64) @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ options=('!libtool') url="http://www.xmlsoft.org/" source=(ftp://ftp.xmlsoft.org/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080205.tar.gz) -md5sums=('c62106f02ee00b6437f0fb9d370c1093' +md5sums=('9c0cfef285d5c4a5c80d00904ddab380' 'b255be9a1c7f7021e52448e4ec8d7a0d')
build() {
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Anatol Pomozov
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Armin K.
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Hussam Al-Tayeb
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LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
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Ross Lagerwall