On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 00:07 -0700, Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> Hi
>  If you can add a note as to why you need those extra patches within 
> libxml2/libxslt that would be useful for any one looking into the below 
> changes.

Good point.  I was going to do that but forgot.  Is it okay to
add that under COMMENTS in METADATA or is that for something else?
I couldn't find any precedent in the existing code.

Laca

> - Sriram
> 
> Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~laca/libxml2-2.7.6/ fixes the following
> > bugs:
> >
> > 6745178 update libxml2 to 2.7.1 (or later)
> > 6832483 Python libxml not available for 2.5, 2.6
> > 6849500 libxslt need to be updated within opensolaris
> >
> > Updates libxml2 to the latest (2.7.6), removes upstream patches
> > and adds some new patches that fix bugs discovered since the
> > release of 2.7.6.  "globals.patch" makes some private functions
> > public.  These functions used to be public and are included in
> > the Solaris mapfile.  The patch effectively reverses the change
> > that made them private.
> >
> > Also updates libxslt to the latest (1.1.26).
> >
> > In both modules, the Python bindings are built twice: for
> > Python 2.4 and for Python 2.6.  The 2.6 bindings are in
> > new packages SUNWlxml-python26 and SUNWlxsl-python26.
> >
> > Please review.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Laca
> >
> >
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