> > I apologize for not having posted this bug earlier with a lower > > severity, but I overlooked the ace package as a reverse dependency on > > xerces26 because none of the binary packages have runtime dependencies > > on libxerces26c2. This makes me wonder whether the build dependency > > on libxerces26-dev may be superfluous. You may want to double check > > that before updating the dependency. Once ace is no longer dependent > > upon libxerces26-dev, the xerces26 removal request can be completed. > > Thanks! > > Hum... I'll check today but I guess you're right. It is probably used > to compile something that is no longer packaged. I'll fix this, thanks !
Indeed, it was once needed to compile DAnCE. But DAnCE is not packaged and today it is no longer compiled. I've commited a fix in r377 [1], thanks for noticing. Thomas [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ace