On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:27:56AM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > Package: libxml-libxml-perl > Version: 1.66-1+b1 > Severity: normal > > On a system only partially upgraded to lenny (from etch), XML::LibXML causes > the following warning upon each invocation: > Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20632, but runtime libxml2 is > older 20627 > > While it doesn't really cause any error, this caused the relevant system to > emit a new email every 5 minutes due to an otherwise silent cron job (which > was fhem2rrd.pl). Quite annoying to find that many mails in your inbox from > a system that runs quite fine in any other way ;-) > > Please either suppress the warning (unless it is actually relevant), or add a > versioned dependency against the version of libxml2 you built against.
The package was indeed built against libxml2 2.6.32. The dependency on libxml2 (>= 2.6.27) is generated by dpkg-shlibdeps(1) based on the information in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxml2.symbols . I think we should suppress the warning rather than try to outguess the libxml2 maintainer's statement about binary compatibility. IMO this should be discussed with XML-LibXML upstream first, ideally with a proposed patch that introduces a build-time switch that distributors can use to suppress the runtime warning. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
