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+# ChangeLog for dev-libs/libxml
+# Copyright 2002-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libxml/ChangeLog,v 1.23 2009/02/03 23:53:09 patrick Exp $
+
+*libxml-1.8.17-r3 (03 Feb 2009)
+
+  03 Feb 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
+  +files/open_call_fix.patch, +libxml-1.8.17-r3.ebuild:
+  gcc 4.3.3 fix, thanks to Romain Perier. Closes #257309
+
+  14 Oct 2008; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
+  libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  Fix bug #226887.
+
+  09 Jun 2008; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  Fix dep on dev-util/gtk-doc-1. bug #221719, thanks to flameeyes for reporting
+
+  14 May 2007; Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
+  add <herd>no-herd</herd>
+
+  07 Feb 2007; Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gentoo.org>
+  +files/configure-LANG.patch, libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  Apply configure-LANG.patch to fix build with et_EE locale (#119094)
+
+  27 Dec 2004; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  added doc USE with gtk-doc dependency, thanks to: Francisco Javier
+  <ffelix@sshinf.com> in bug #62760
+
+  28 Jul 2004; Tom Gall <tgall@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  stable on ppc64, bug #55076
+
+  13 May 2004; Stephen P. Becker <geoman@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  Stable on mips.
+
+  17 Feb 2004; Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  Added ~mips to keywords.
+
+  09 Jan 2004; <agriffis@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild:
+  stable on ia64
+
+  30 Mar 2003; phoen][x <phoenix@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild :
+  Updated SRC_URI. Thanks to 'noidd' in #zaurus for the contribution.
+
+  04 Feb 2003; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild :
+  Mark stable on alpha
+
+  16 Dec 2002; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild :
+  Added ~alpha to KEYWORDS
+
+  06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees <manson@gentoo.org> : changed sparc ~sparc keywords
+ 
+*libxml-1.8.17-r2 (25 March 2002)
+
+  06 Jul 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild :
+  Added hppa to KEYWORDS.
+
+  22 Oct 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild :
+
+  Updated SRC_URI. Closes bug #9501 by prophyro@hotmail.com (Boris Terzic)
+
+  06 Aug 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> : 
+  Added ppc to keywords
+
+  25 March 2002; M.Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> :
+
+  Delete the /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml symlink in pkg_preinst() as it
+  gets unmerged sometimes.
+
+*libxml-1.8.17-r1 (24 March 2002)
+
+  24 March 2002; M.Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> :
+
+  Fix html pages to install into the correct location.
+
+*libxml-1.8.16 (1 Feb 2002)
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ChangeLog :
+  
+  Added initial ChangeLog which should be updated whenever the package is
+  updated in any way. This changelog is targetted to users. This means that the
+  comments should well explained and written in clean English. The details about
+  writing correct changelogs are explained in the skel.ChangeLog file which you
+  can find in the root directory of the portage repository.