maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 263094] textproc/libxml2: incorrect LIBXML_VERSION_STRING in 2.9.13
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:28:39 UTC
Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-desktop (Team) <desktop@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 263094: textproc/libxml2: incorrect LIBXML_VERSION_STRING in 2.9.13 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263094 --- Description --- On FreeBSD 13, the `libxml2-2.9.13` package has an unexpected value in the `xmlParserVersion` global variable. Expected: "20913" Actual: "209013" (note the additional "0" between the "9" and "13"). For comparison, in the `libxml2-2.9.12` package this value was correctly set to "20912". Looking at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262288 this appears to be happening because of this diff: ``` /** * LIBXML_VERSION: * * the version number: 1.2.3 value is 10203 */ -#define LIBXML_VERSION 20912 +#define LIBXML_VERSION 209013 /** * LIBXML_VERSION_STRING: * * the version number string, 1.2.3 value is "10203" */ -#define LIBXML_VERSION_STRING "20912" +#define LIBXML_VERSION_STRING "209013" ``` (see https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=232326 for the full diff) I'm not sure why this has happened, but it's not uncommon for downstream users of libxml2 to sanity-check this string to make sure the version dynamically loaded is the same version that was compiled. See https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2506 for an example. I'd like to suggest that these strings should be set to "20913" in the next release of the package. Thank you!