Comment 7 for bug 343242

Streamlining the use of the standard library xml module is probably a good idea. However, the removal of python-xml breaks not only packages in universe, but also third party applications. At my company, various products include code built around PyXML's xpath module. While they run perfectly well on our servers using older Python and PyXML versions, I am currently only able to run test builds on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation after I used the "symlink booleans.so" hack mentioned above.

Is there a specific reason why PyXML shouldn't be in Ubuntu? Because now that python-xml has been removed completely, I probably won't be able to upgrade to future Ubuntu versions without pulling an outdated (or non-packaged) PyXML back in.