Bug#1121323: performous: depends on superseded libxml++2.6

[Simon McVittie]

Source: performous
Version: 1.3.1+ds-2
Severity: normal
Tags: forky sid upstream
Control: block 1038804 by -1
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libxml++2.6

Binaries produced by this source package depend on libxml++2.6, a C++ 
wrapper around libxml2.

libxml++2.6 is no longer maintained upstream (#1038804). It has been 
superseded by libxml++-3.0, which was itself superseded by libxml++-4.0 
(RFP: #819562) and libxml++-5.0 (RFP: #1121304).

If this package is ported to one of the newer libraries, packaging the new 
version will require packaging the new library first. I haven't marked 
#819562 and #1121304 as blockers for this bug, because I don't know which 
one would be more appropriate.

Alternatively, it could be ported to use libxml2's C interface directly, 
or to use some unrelated XML library.

    smcv