Comment 5 for bug 1956345

> It seems XMLRPC has lost the fight and on the way out. My gut feeling suggests to demote php-xmlrpc in Ubuntu 22.04 as a trial. If a reasonable real case comes up with use-cases needing support on php-xmlrpc we can re-promote it to main in 22.04.

I concur with this, it fits what I found as well.

Your mention of wordpress reminds me of when I looked at this prior to the holidays. Digging back through the history it seemed that at one point this was split from wordpress in hopes other projects could use it, but it failed to become commonly used, and eventually even wordpress moved on.

> @Bryce:
> - Do you know of any other good way to check popularity/importance of php-xmlrpc to further guide our decision?

No, indeed there are a number of similar php bits that I suspect are not really used, but I lack a reliable way to obtain data to prove so.

> - If you agree would you prep the seed change?

Does it just need dropped from the platform seed's server component? If so, please review:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/platform/+merge/413720