Sorry, but what's the justification for this being an SRU?  Yes, the
libxml2-dev package is wrongly marked as co-installable, but I don't see
how the impact of this warrants an SRU - especially given this:

> [Regression Potential] xml2-config reports the libdir is /usr/lib, while the
> actual ones are /usr/lib/<triplets>. This might break applications whose
> build system can't find libraries correctly in the previous path but relies
> on xml2-config's output. I recommend to use pkg-config instead of this
> script.

That's not an ignorable regression potential; there's a huge number of
packages in Ubuntu that build-depend on libxml2-dev, and we don't know
which of any of them, or what third-party software, is affected by this
change.

Given that this is only a -dev package that's affected, not a runtime
package, I don't think it makes sense to SRU this - and I certainly
don't think it warrants priority: high.

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