libxml no longer needed

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 08:31 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:39:59AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:35 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > It's been discovered (thanks Bill) that nothing in Core or Extras seems
> > > to need libxml.  We'd like to kill it from the tree, before the freeze
> > > for Test3 (Tuesday).  Speak now, or forever hold your pieces of
> > > packages.
> > 
> > It's a dependency of libglade, which is up for review for entry into
> > Extras (#198244). If it's going from Core I'll pick it up for Extras.
> 
>   What is using libglade then ? Anything relying on libxml version 1
> really must die now ! You should block libglade from Extras if it really
> is so far behind and has no app needing it.

I need libglade for pptpconfig, which is written in php-gtk; there is
work going on to port it to pygtk but that is stalled at the moment due
to lack of manpower. Lots of people find pptpconfig very useful for
configuring connections to Windows VPN servers.

Paul.