Please merge libnxml 0.18.3-2 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

Attached debian - ubuntu debdiff.

Hi,

We need to track down what problem the Ubuntu diff is fixing and
forward the patch if it is not Ubuntu-specific.

Thanks,

James

It will FTBFS if we use a version (< 0.4.49ubuntu5) of cdbs. Please see bug #186130. clean-la-mk.in was introduced in version 0.4.49ubuntu5 as you can see below:

cdbs (0.4.49ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add 1/rules/clean-la.mk.in: Script to remove all dependencies from .la
    files. This allows us a smooth migration towards killing .la files
    entirely.

 -- Martin Pitt < <email address hidden>> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:43:10 -0500

clean-la.mk.in was written by Martin Pitt to remove .la dependencies from all .la files and it's not yet in Debian.

Debian shouldn't be affected by this because if we forward this patch, they must include clean-la.mk.in to cdbs in order to work. That being said, this is Ubuntu-specific. If we still use a version gt 0.4.49ubuntu5 it won't FTBFS.

Thanks.

Hi,

Thanks for your analysis. I was concerned by the use of
the word "fix" when clean-la was added to the package, but looking
in to it a bit more shows that it isn't a bug as such, and so we don't
need to forward the problem to Debian.

Thanks,

James

This bug was fixed in the package libnxml - 0.18.3-2ubuntu1

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libnxml (0.18.3-2ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #299350), remaining changes:
    - debian/rules: include clean-la.mk from cdbs to fix the .la file
    - debian/control: add versioning to cdbs to fix FTBFS when backporting

libnxml (0.18.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Torsten Werner ]
  * Remove dummy symlink to /bin/true.

  [ Varun Hiremath ]
  * Add nxml_parser.diff patch to not strip leading spaces out of feeds
    (Closes: #496765)

libnxml (0.18.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream bugfix release
  * Bump up Standards-Version: 3.8.0 (no changes needed).

 -- Iulian Udrea <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:30:04 +0000