[MIR] libkolabxml

[Jonathan Riddell]

We need libkolabxml to add Kolab support to kdepim-runtime

This is a small library which reads the Kolab XML format

I have checked https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements and it satisfies the requirements

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Paired with bug 1026198 for libkolab

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

It's a bummer that it's not in Debian, but I trust the Kubuntu team to look after it. But they should really be bug subscribers then. Else no one is watching this package.

Additionally, tests exist but are not run because the package doesn't Build-Depend on Qt. It should do that, and the tests should be part of the build. (The tests don't seem to require the GUI parts of Qt, just the core and test bits.)

Finally, I noticed that swig2.0 is a Build-Depend but not used? "Could not build SWIG bindings, because SWIG is missing." Is that intentional?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Arg, this would also require promotion of libxerces-c-dev and xsdcxx. I suspect that's going to be an issue from a security perspective (adding another XML parser). It doesn't look possible to use libxml2 instead?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Assigning xerces-c to jdstrand to get a sense of the security concerns with xerces.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I thought that KDE was going to be maintained in universe so that the KDE team could better support it? Wouldn't it be better to demote the KDE bits? Eg: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2012-June/006191.html

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I thought so too, and that is true for most of Kubuntu. But kdepim-runtime is in a dependency chain that leads to apport.

apport Build-Depends on python3-pykde4 -> kdepim-runtime.

Let me see if that needs to be true.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

OK, I've got a change prep'ed for after Alpha 3 that should allow us to drop python3-pykde4 and thus kdepim-runtime from main. Will update once that's pushed.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks Michael! That's fantastic. :)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

OK, uploaded the new apport to quantal. I'll change the libkolab MIR to a request to drop the packages from main.