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

[Jamie Strandboge]

I thought Kubuntu developers wanted this sort of thing because of things
like MIRs and maintenance? Regardless, providing Canonical support for a
whole bunch of packages because of one small tool is not the best use of
resources. If we fork, I figured that would fall in Canonical to
maintain the fork since we would be the ones to introduce it.

** Description changed:

  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:
+ There are three 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.
+ * drop installation-guide* from the platform.quantal/supported-installer-common seed (it doesn't seem to be used on Ubuntu images, but this needs to be researched more)

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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 three 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.
  * drop installation-guide* from the platform.quantal/supported-installer-common seed (it doesn't seem to be used on Ubuntu images, but this needs to be researched more)

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