[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#531727: thuban: python-xml removal: please drop/replace (build) dependencies

[Michael Terry]

Package: thuban
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: important
Usertags: python-xml-removal

Since some time a subset of python-xml is included in the
standard python library, while the python-xml package did not see
any updates for years.  It is time to drop it from the distribution.
Update scenarios:

 - Just drop the (build) dependency, if the functionality is included
   in python. (Build)-depend on python (>= 2.4).

 - Copy missing code in the std library from the python-xml package.
   (e.g. for some installer packages: localechoose).

 - Use another xml library (python-4suite-xml, python-lxml).

Please contact the ML pkg-zope-developers at lists.alioth.debian.org
for further questions and help.  Patches for some packages may be
available as a diff of an Ubuntu package at
http://packages.qa.debian.org/thuban

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-7-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash