Comment 11 for bug 1082170

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Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich) wrote : Re: [Bug 1082170] Re: skype-bin is not installable on 64bit oneiric due to broken multiarch dependencies

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 00:15 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> I've uploaded iso-codes (awaiting review). However, I'm decreasingly
> convinced that we can convert libxml2 to multiarch in oneiric at all.
> Lots of .la files referred to the non-multiarch location
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643026), and at least
> parser, pyabiword, and gnustep-base had to be fixed due to broken build
> system assumptions. This is a lot to try to do in a stable release, and
> we'd probably need a full test rebuild.

I've reviewed iso-codes, and it appears to be fine. You already said
that libxml2 is fully converted in precise, which has the exact same
upstream version. Given that, I see no reason at all not to backport it
from precise.