Public bug reported:

A while ago, the Kubuntu team asked me to get rid of guidance-backends
in jockey, since guidance is abandoned upstream and we don't want to
support it any more.

Alberto has kindly done the porting of Jockey to X-Kit
(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jockey-hackers/jockey/trunk/revision/376)
in jockey trunk now. X-Kit is used by the X.org configuration applets as
well now, and recently got promoted to main. It has a slightly better
API than guidance, and has a reasonably rich test suite.

Jockey's own test suite ensures that the patch works well, and in fact
has uncovered a few bugs in both the initial porting, as well as x-kit
itself, which got all fixed now. Therefore I am quite confident in the
change.

I'd like to merge this into the Ubuntu branch for an intrepid upload, so
that we can get rid of guidance.

** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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FF exception request: switch from guidance-backends to x-kit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269057
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