Bug#732725: We intent to request the removal of libogre-perl (was: Re: Bug#732725: libogre-perl: Please upgrade OGRE dependency to 1.9 when upstream ready)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-05-23 15:48 GMT+01:00 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> the Debian Perl Team intents to file a removal bug for libogre-perl as
>
> * it no more builds against libogre 1.9 (#732725);
> * its upstream seems inactive since 2013, see
>   https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=94066#txn-1344923;
> * it never had much popcon (maximum 26, current 22, vote maximum 7,
>   vote current 1); and
> * it has no hard reverse dependencies.
>
> The only non-hard reverse dependencies are
>
> * games-perl-dev which Recommends it, and
> * libois-perl which Enhances it.
>
> Unless there are objections _and_ a fix, we'll soon file a removal bug
> report for libogre-perl soon.
>
> Cc to the submitter of #732725, the games-perl-dev maintainers and
> Dmitry E. Oboukhov who RFP'ed libogre-perl.
>
> (The maintainer of libois-perl is the Debian Perl Team itself, hence
> I'll remove that "Enhances" header there myself, soon, too.)

Thanks for the update, Axel.

Perhaps we could make an effort to get it to compile with ogre-1.9,
but even this version is oldish and I expect that we will have soon
1.10 and 2.x, most probably requiring even more changes to
rev-depends.

The lack of upstream development is indeed a concern, and the popcon
usage is low (I wonder if anybody is indeed developing with
libogre-perl), so I think that it's probably not very worth to try to
keep it alive for another release cycle.

OIS is not completely OGRE-dependent, but I guess that most of the
projects using it come from the OGRE world -- OIS was once part of
OGRE.  That said, if it works, no reason to remove it.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>