Dear Developers,

I need your expertise or history knowlege to understand extensions that
use the uniconverter: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Uniconver
tor

On my system (Ubuntu 16.04) the uniconverter is broken, the package
python-uniconv doesn't contain the sk1lib libraries and those libraries
are in fact not available at all to debian, either through apt or
through pypi. There is an option to download from their website, but
random debs you find online seems unseemly.

So my main question is: Have we been shipping broken extensions to all
our linux users? Has anyone noticed?

The debian bug report about the missing library doesn't seem to have
been finished, so I don't even know if up to date ubuntus contain a
fix. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820748

I did notice the library being shipped in our MacOSX build (and
probably in our windows build) is that complete? Does it work there?

I'd like to get these extensions fixed as part of the inkscape-
extensions-1.0 package of cleanup, code quality and refactoring work.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

• Figure out how to package uniconvertor properly and switch to updated packages.  Source code is available at
    https://github.com/sk1project/uniconvertor
  however it seems active development lately shifted to an updated version of "UniConvertor 2.0" and it's not obvious if usage of either package for Inkscape is straightforward.
• Drop Uniconvertor and related extensions (especially if we can not motivate anybody to support it properly).
  While I know a few people still use it (there are occasional support requests for it) I think it was mostly used for CDR input which is now provided by libcdr and if it was widely used I suspect we'd see a lot more related questions.

Regards,
Eduard