On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:26:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 17 septembre 2005 à 06:36 -0500, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > > > Pathan is a library that implements XPath functionality in c++. It > > > is available both as a separate tarball as well as bundled with the > > > Berkeley DB XML sources provided by Sleepycat Software. The pathan > > > build script require a path to the xerces source code tree. I have > > > tried to find a way to build the pathan library without providing > > > the xerces source but failed. > > > > find out exactly the files in the xerces sources that are needed > > to build Pathan (using strace, etc.). Change xerces26-dev to include > > these files so that you can just build-dep on xerces26-dev. Then try to > > help upstream to reduce the source dependency. > > I guess this is still a bad idea. If these symbols are not part of the > public API, you should never rely on them, as there's a possibility for > xerces26-dev to stop providing them, or to change them, later.
True. I ran into same thing with packaging anyterm (still in progress) and librote (already in Sid/Etch). I simply had to ask the librote developer to make the symbols public and he did. No problem and much cleaner than requiring the source of another package. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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