Bug#1038804: libxml++2.6: Old ABI, not recommended for new applications

[Simon McVittie]

Source: libxml++2.6
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream wontfix

libxml++2.6 is documented on its upstream website
<https://libxmlplusplus.github.io/libxmlplusplus/> as:

> libxml++-2.6: Old ABI, not recommended for new applications. Uses
> Glib::ustring from the glibmm-2.4 ABI.

The suggested replacement is one of the newer, parallel-installable
versions libxml++-3.0, libxml++-4.0 or libxml++-5.0.

If someone wants to package one of those (as requested in #819562)
then they should be a separate source package, similar to the relationship
between GTK 2, 3 and 4. As a result I'm marking this bug as wontfix:
it will never be fixed *in the libxml++2.6 package*.

    smcv