Comment 12 for bug 1082170

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The "verification-done" tag is sufficient; iso-codes shouldn't go to Fix Released until the package is actually copied to -updates.

I explained in comment #5 why it is not a straightforward matter to convert libxml2 to multiarch in oneiric. Sure, the package itself is fairly easy to convert, but there are a lot of knock-on effects; it wouldn't be acceptable, for instance, to cause any future security updates of an unknown but definitely non-zero number of packages to fail to build. We would have to do a full test rebuild of all reverse dependencies of libxml2 and backport all the build system fixes that we and/or Debian applied to those in precise. Given that oneiric has only five months of support left, and that we do not appear to have a clear requirement to update skype in oneiric, it's not obvious that this effort is worth it by comparison with the other things we could be fixing in oneiric or other releases.