hello in 9.1, and possibly in cooker, perl-XML-LibXML is packaged to work with the libxml2 of the distribution, version libxml2-2.5.4.
The problem is that this version of libxml2 is known to not work correctly with the perl binding. If you try to install perl-XML-LibXML from cpan, it will say that you have no libxml2 installed, because in fact, the Makefile.PL has a blacklist of know libxml2 version that don't work. 2.5.4 is one of them. the resulting perl-XML-LibXML (and common, and possibly other perl binding) doesn't work in many cases, and the errors are not obvious ( most of the times segfaults of the libxml2 lib). The solutions could be to provide a libxml2 that is know to work, and package the perl binding against it. Maybe have 2 version of libxml2 : one for C, and another for perl binding. I'm convinced that this problem is not restricted to libxml2. We could try to maintain a library blacklist as they do in the CPAN perl-XML-LibXml Makefile.PL. By the way, if you don't have time to repackage the whole thing, I can try to do it, but I think it has t be decided what to be done : don't change anything, put an older libxml2 in the distro, or have 2 libxml2, one for C, one for perl. my 2 cents -- dams
