diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog
--- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog	2012-06-25 13:04:33.000000000 +0100
+++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/changelog	2012-06-25 14:34:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+libxml2 (2.8.0+dfsg1-4ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
+
+  * Merge with Debian (LP: #987502), remaining changes:
+    - Don't drop *.la file. Some libraries still depend on it.
+
+ -- Iain Lane <iain.lane@canonical.com>  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:14:43 +0100
+
 libxml2 (2.8.0+dfsg1-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Sanitize the output of `xml2-config --libs`.
diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control
--- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control	2012-06-25 13:07:21.000000000 +0100
+++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/control	2012-06-25 16:43:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: libxml2
 Priority: optional
 Section: libs
-Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>, YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), perl, dh-autoreconf, autotools-dev,
@@ -144,3 +145,18 @@
  This package contains the files needed to use the GNOME XML library
  in Python programs for use with the Python debug interpreter.
 
+Package: libxml2-udeb
+XC-Package-Type: udeb
+Architecture: any
+Section: debian-installer
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: GNOME XML library - minimal runtime
+ XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language.
+ A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in
+ a certain class of documents (eg HTML). XML lets you define your
+ own customized markup languages for many classes of document. It
+ can do this because it's written in SGML, the international standard
+ metalanguage for markup languages.
+ .
+ This is a minimal package for use in debian-installer that yields a
+ library providing an extensive API to handle such XML data files.
diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/libxml2-dev.install libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/libxml2-dev.install
--- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/libxml2-dev.install	2012-06-02 10:10:03.000000000 +0100
+++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/libxml2-dev.install	2012-06-25 14:44:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 usr/bin/xml2-config
 usr/lib/*/libxml2.so
 usr/lib/*/libxml2.a
+usr/lib/*/libxml2.la
 usr/lib/*/xml2Conf.sh
 usr/share/aclocal
 usr/lib/*/pkgconfig
diff -Nru libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/rules libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/rules
--- libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/rules	2012-06-02 22:55:35.000000000 +0100
+++ libxml2-2.8.0+dfsg1/debian/rules	2012-06-25 14:43:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
 	dh_auto_clean
 
 override_dh_auto_install: $(TARGETS:%=doinstall-%)
-	find debian/ -name *.la -delete
+	sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" \
+		debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libxml2.la
 
 doinstall-main:
 	dh_auto_install --builddirectory=builddir/main