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

John Spray jcspray at icculus.org
Wed Apr 16 17:16:02 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 20:51 +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2008, 10:00 -0400 schrieb jcspray at icculus.org:
> > 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.
> 
> As far as I can tell, minidom is included in Python since 2.0.

I've now removed all mention of python-xml from referencer.  Tested
without it on ubuntu 6.06, seems to be happy.

John





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