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

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sat Jun 4 20:55:39 UTC 2011


On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:20:56 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> >> 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).

Uh-oh. Thanks for the pointer.
 
> > 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).  

Agreed.

> Given the package did not have a release on CPAN
> for almost two years, I would go with (a).

Ok, I can't really find any good objections :)

Cheers,
gregor

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