[Bug 1031478] Re: Drop Build-Depends on poxml

[Scott Kitterman]

Actually it won't help Kubuntu to demote the package.  All our
developers have access to the Kubuntu packageset regardless of if a
package is in Main or Universe.  There may be other reasons to demote
it, but that's not one of them.

Since the KDE stack is maintained by Kubuntu developers anyway, I
suspect that forking poxml would result in more work, not less for other
developers (I am reasonably confident no Kubuntu devs are going to worry
about maintaining the fork).

If you really want to get the stuff out of Main, I'd suggest converting
to another tool is the best choice.

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Title:
  Drop Build-Depends on poxml

Status in “installation-guide” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “installation-guide” source package in Quantal:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  installation-guide uses poxml from kdesdk, which is keeping a lot of
  KDE in main. If installation-guide were updated to use something else,
  a large dependency chain on KDE could be demoted, which would aid the
  KDE to better support these packages.

  There are two options as I see it:
  * convert installation-guide to use another tool
  * fork kdesdk/poxml and have installation-guide use it. As it turns out, poxml only has modest dependencies on qt4, so this might be the way to go.

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