Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:50:35AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> 
> Hi Adrian,

Hi Axel,

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > first of all, please Cc the submitter when answering to him
>
> My answer was not to specific to the submitter but to the bug report
> and the discussion in general so that others have data to make up
> their own opinion. (Otherwise I likely would have written "Hi Adrian"
> at the start of the mail.) The fact that I think that libarch-perl/tla
> should not be removed (yet) is solely the result of my number digging.
> As I said I don't use tla, hence I wouldn't be affected by it's or
> libarch-perl's removal.

when you argue against my suggestion in the bug, it would be fair to let 
me know so that I have a chance to respond.

>...
> The "Suggests" does IMHO not explain it, because suggests are not
> installed by default.
>...

I have no numbers to back that up, but I'd guess many people might
read "arch" as "architecture" and then simply install it since it
was suggested and sounds useful.

> > And I do therefore also doubt that there is any value left in 
> > libarch-perl.
> 
> I'm still not convinced since there are currently still a few votes
> despite the descreasing popcon (in absolute numbers as well as in
> percentage) which seem to be around 10% of the highest peak. IMHO
> that's quite some "value left". (And yes, "left" fits. :-)
>...

As I said the last bug report from a user in the Debian BTS was in 2009,
and in the upstream bugtracker [1] the last bug report from a user was 
in 2007.

I frequently run into projects still using CVS, but I cannot recall the 
last time I saw an active Arch repositury.

Can you show 1 (one) Arch repository that still exists and had a new
commit in the last 3 years?

> 		Regards, Axel

cu
Adrian

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnu-arch

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