[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 199014] Re: python-xml removal: please drop/replace (build) dependencies

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python-xml removal: please drop/replace (build) dependencies
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Bug description:
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SRU TEST CASE For pyslide

Version 0.4-10ubuntu2 in hardy is missing it's dependency on python-xml

Version 0.4-10ubuntu2.1 in hardy-proposed re-adds this dependency.

In order to test that this fixes pyslide, remove python-xml. Then install pyslide-0.4-10ubuntu2.1 from hardy-proposed to first verify that python-xml is correctly installed as a dependency.

Next, navigate to "/usr/share/doc/pyslide/examples"
Then, run "pyslide full.xml" 

You should be able to navigate through the slide show.

Without python-xml installed, you will receive the following Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pyslide", line 30, in <module>
    m.action()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Pyslide/Main/__init__.py", line 71, in __call__
    fo = main.loadfile(fn)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Pyslide/Main/__init__.py", line 294, in loadfile
    from Pyslide.File import ReadFile
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Pyslide/File.py", line 42, in <module>
    class ContentParser(xml.sax.saxutils.DefaultHandler):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DefaultHandler'
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Debian is working to remove python-xml before the lenny release.  If would be 
good if Ubuntu could manage the same for Hardy.  Since some time a subset of 
python-xml is included in the standard python library, while the python-xml 
package did not see any updates for years.  It is time to drop it from the 
distribution. 

Update scenarios:

 - Just drop the (build) dependency, if the functionality is included
   in python. (Build)-depend on python (>= 2.4).

 - Copy missing code in the std library from the python-xml package.
   (e.g. for some installer packages: localechoose).

 - Use another xml library (python-4suite-xml, python-lxml).

This has been the subject of a recent mass bug filing in Debian, so in many 
cases it's just a question of syncing an updated package from Debian.  See

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python-xml-removal;users=pkg-zope-developers@lists.alioth.debian.org

for the Debian bugs and their status.