Bug#629079: Proposed-RM: libextutils-install-perl -- RoM; uninstallable, provided by perl

[Ansgar Burchardt]

gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:17:21 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> I suggest to remove libextutils-install-perl from unstable. It is not
>> installable as a newer version is provided by perl (which conflicts with
>> older versions of libextutils-install-perl), 
>
> Just for reference: #626332
>
>> and a newer version hasn't
>> been released on CPAN for quite some time.
>> If there are no objections, I'll reassign this bug to the FTP team on
>> the weekend.
>
> Hm, in #625230 (libfile-path-perl) we had a similar discussion, and
> the conclusion there was to leave the package in unstable and the RC
> bug open, until a new upstream release appears.

Yes, I did see that one a few hours later.  ExtUtils::Install has the
additional fun of having patches applied in the perl package and not in
libextutils-install-perl (#624508).

> However we proceed, I'd suggest to do the same for both packages. And
> I still slightly prefer to keep them, unless we know that there won't
> be any new releases.

We can keep libfile-path-perl and drop it if nothing changes until
wheezy, but I would still like to either a, remove
libextutils-install-perl or b, not have patches applied to it in both
perl and the extra package (as we will forget to sync patches at some
later point anyway).  Given the package did not have a release on CPAN
for almost two years, I would go with (a).

Regards,
Ansgar