Good day all, As a side effect of looking into the xqilla FTBFS bug, the new xqilla maintainer and I found that xerces-c is terribly out of date. We're shipping xerces-c-2.8 and Apache has been shipping xerces-c-3.x since 2008. The last 2.x release was in 2007. The xqilla maintainer is also going to be taking over the xerces-c package and wants to update to xerces-c-3.x in rawhide. This will affect a small number of packages: blahtexml -- jasper cegui -- jwrdegoede dbxml -- orphan dbxml-perl -- orphan enigma -- thl frepple -- jdetaeye gdal -- rezso glest -- bruno opensaml -- stevetraylen ovaldi -- lkundrak qpidc -- nsantos xalan-c -- lkundrak xerces-c -- peter xmlcopyeditor -- ivazquez xml-security-c -- anttix xmltooling -- stevetraylen xqilla10 -- orphan xqilla -- jonathanrobie xsd -- anttix This is an API breaking change (although some segments of the API are unchanged; for instance, if you only use the SAX parser nothing is supposed to be different) so some packages may not build after this. Since it's been two years, it's likely that some of these packages have been tested and will work with xerces-c-3 (perhaps after an update of their own). Information about the API changes is here: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/migrate-archive-3.html If a lot of these packages cannot be updated to xerces-c-3.x then creating a xerces-c-2.x package is a possibility but we'd need to work out who wants to build and maintain it and some build scripts may need to be changed as the header files for xerces-c-2 and xerces-c-3 conflict (therefore, the headers for the new xerces-c2 package would need to be moved) -Toshio
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