Orphaned perl libraries constitute a meaningful proportion of the orphaned packages. Could the perl team take a look at them? Perhaps they might wish to adopt some, and perhaps they might be able to point to some which in their opinion should be removed from Debian (perhaps some are obsolete or folded into the main perl distribution).
List follows, excluding packages which are already being removed or ITAed: libapache-authznetldap-perl -- only 35 popcon installs libbusiness-ups-perl -- only 17 popcon installs libcdk-perl libclass-prototyped-perl -- only 23 popcon installs libconfhelper-perl -- 1523 popcon installs, no revdeps in Debian (unofficial mplayer packages are a revdep) libconvert-ber-perl libcorba-orbit-perl libdb-file-lock-perl libextutils-f77-perl -- only 36 popcon installs liblingua-ispell-perl libmail-listdetector-perl libmldbm-sync-perl libnet-ftpserver-perl -- only 36 popcon installs libnewt-perl -- only 35 popcon installs libpalm-perl libperlmenu-perl libpod-pom-perl libqt-perl libtangram-perl -- only 24 popcon installs libtest-cmd-perl -- only 36 popcon installs libtie-cache-perl libvcs-perl libxml-sablot-perl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]