[Bug 1271718] [NEW] Please remove xerces-c2 from Ubuntu

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Micah Gersten (micahg):

(I am the debian maintainer for xerces-c and xerces-c2)

There are only three packages left in debian that have build
dependencies on xerces-c2, and after my NMU goes through in a few days,
there will only be two packages left.  Of these, one is not in debian's
testing release and the other seems to be dead upstream in its current
form.  I hope to be requesting removal of the xerces-c2 package in a few
days, but I'm not sure whether it will happen in time for the sync
freeze for trusty.  Given that xerces-c2 is no longer maintained
upstream and that the xerces code base does get occasional security
updates, it might be worth considering exclusing xerces-c2 from trusty.
This will reduce by two years the amount of time anyone has to worry
about backporting security issues to it.  I don't know if you have a way
of doing that or not or even whether you think it's a good idea, but
either way, I expect xerces-c2 to disappear from debian soon.

I suppose there's a chance that the removal won't happen as soon as I
think for some reason, so discretion is advised, of course...

** Affects: anon-proxy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: clam (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: uns (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: xerces-c2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Confirmed

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Please remove xerces-c2 from Ubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1271718
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