libxml v1 dependencies (was: Re: multilib fun - devel packages)

Tue Dec 13 17:14:36 UTC 2005

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 08:33 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:39:47PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> > libxml-devel-1.8.17-13
> 
> Why on earth do I still hear about libxml (v1) in the context of Fedora ?
> Repeat after me, this package is dead, unmaintained, and nothing should
> rely on it anymore, shipping a -devel for it is just insane, I though the
> decision it was dropped for good had been taken ages ago, or did I missed
> something ?

At least the following still shipped rawhide packages have a build
dependency on libxml-devel: gal, GConf, gnome-print, gnucash, gtkhtml,
Guppi, libglade, oaf.