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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

severity 629291 serious
thanks

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 02:34:28PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:37:47 +0200, Xavier wrote:
> 
> > >>> pkg-perl people: any objections to me raising this bug to RC and
> > >>> requesting its removal from testing, as a first step?
> > >>
> > >> Hm, libtest-mockclass-perl seems to build-depend on it
> > >> (which itself doesn't have any (build-)rdeps).
> > > 
> > > And which has a low popcon score. So, okay to remove that too?
> > > Note that libtest-simpleunit-perl now has a perl 5.18 FTBFS, which
> > > is probably enough to justify removal from unstable.
> >
> > I've uploaded a beta version on git, perhaps works-it better ?
> > (I've no time to test it today and I think that the problem isn't only
> > with Perl-5.18 but is repared bi beta version)
> 
> Uploaded where? I don't see any changes in the
> libtest-simpleunit-perl repo on alioth?

I can only assume that this was a confusion and that the comment
applied to a different package. I'm raising this bug to RC now and will
file a removal request for both libtest-simpleunit-perl and
libtest-mockclass-perl in one week unless there are objections.

Cheers,
Dominic.