Bug#629291: Background behind removal of Test::SimpleUnit from CPAN?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:37:33AM -0700, Michael Granger wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > When looking at the Debian package of Test::SimpleUnit, I notice that
> > it had disappeared from CPAN. I assume that this is just a question of
> > you not wanting to support it any more, but I wondered if you could
> > confirm, or provide any more details?
> 
> 
> I guess so; I haven't actually supported it or even used Perl for anything serious in close to five years now. I seem to remember hearing that they were going to purge code that hadn't been updated in a while at some point, so that's likely what happened. 
> 
> Sorry about that. If you (or anyone else) wants to resurrect it and maintain it, I'd be happy to transfer it to them.

No need to apologise :) I don't think we've identified a compelling
use case for this module in Debian, so I suspect we'll remove it in
due course.

pkg-perl people: any objections to me raising this bug to RC and
requesting its removal from testing, as a first step?

Cheers,
Dominic.

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