Bug importances are not set because some developer (or bug triager) considers 
it important or unimportant for himself but for the larger part of the target 
audience (users).
It is wishlist because it is not urgent to the existence of Kubuntu or Ubuntu 
or Linux or even Krita, even it was it probably would still not get beyond 
importance Low because it is a feature request, no more and no less than that. 
PSD is a non-standardized proprietary format for which support could break with 
the next release of PS because Adobe decides to change the format around. Also 
PSD is specifically concepted for PS, while krt is concepted for Krita and xcf 
is for Gimp. They are specific storage formats for specific applications, being 
able to open them is not primary objective of any pixel editor. If Krita could 
not open PNG it would be importance High or Critical, JPEG or GIF would be 
Critical (especially if it was working before), if import of certain files 
causes a crash it would probably be Medium and if there were some random 
rendering issue in, say, SVG rendering it would be low (since Krita aint is no 
vector graphics application). Wishlist is a request for features that are not 
yet available and might not be made available.

So here is why you don't need points 2to5 for this particular bug. The Ubuntu 
archive is split into 2 main parts called main and universe. Former receives 
(security) updates and is supported by Canonical (the main company behind 
Ubuntu), while the latter is mostly community driven. Core KDE is in main while 
random KDE apps that are not of interest for the Kubuntu default system reside 
mostly in universe. So, since one part is supported and the other only as far 
as the community wants to go, packages in main can not depend on such in 
universe (otherwise the whole splitting by support level would not make any 
sense and all 20k packages would need to receive updates of any kind).
Meaning, we are talking politics here. Koffice at this point cannnot be built 
with PSD support because the package required for that would need to be in 
main, but it is not. What needs to be done is either get graphicsMagick to main 
(which is very unlikely to happen due to its massiveness et all). Other options 
would include talking to the Krita developers whether they would consider 
splitting the plugin into a separate source tarball which can reside in main 
(so PSD support can be available in Ubuntu after installing an additional 
package), or split the plugin out ourselfs, or not support PSD, or find some 
other fancy solution.
In either case the actual (technical) implementation would take no more than a 
couple of minutes, what takes time is finding the best approach to this which 
fits the requirements of users, Ubuntu developers and Krita developers.

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krita cannot open photoshop files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290027
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