> whether the 196222 suggested solution works, This is not a complicated issue. libxml2 was split, meinproc requires parts of it that were moved into libxml2-utils but kdelibs4-dev does not yet depend on libxml2-utils.
It is also not complicated to fix. Depends: ..., libxml2-utils This breaks every build that uses meinproc, including most of the KDE packages that I maintain. Sure, I could upload every single source package with an added superfluous build-dependency on libxml2-utils, but somehow it seems simpler, more correct and easier on the buildds just to fix kdelibs4-dev instead. Ben.