[referencer] Ubuntu (and others) dropping python-xml

jcspray at icculus.org jcspray at icculus.org
Tue Apr 15 10:00:35 EDT 2008


Quoting Andreas Wagner <A.Wagner at stud.uni-frankfurt.de>:
> In short, they are going to drop python-xml from the distribution and
> recommend to either drop python-xml as an explicit build dependency and
> rely on the core python package which by now includes much of the
> functionality, or use python-lxml (,or finally to include the needed
> functionality with your own package, but I'm not sure I got that right).


So it seems that minidom is included in python 2.5?  In that case it's  
simply a case of removing the dependency for python >= 2.5.

Good spot though, I was running Hardy but hadn't noticed this.

John




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