Hi, As you can see from the message below, we are considering removing Embperl from Debian because of concerns about not being actively maintained. We have had to patch it several times to cope with changes in newer upstream versions over the past few years, and we don't think it is really being used much in Debian any more.
Interested if anyone has any thoughts on this from the user or upstream dev perspective. Best, Dominic. ----- Forwarded message from Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> ----- Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 17:08:38 +0200 From: Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Bug#899021: libembperl-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.27, unmaintained upstream Reply-To: Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]>, [email protected] Source: libembperl-perl Version: 2.5.0-11 Severity: serious Justification: unmaintained upstream, and will shortly break in Debian X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] User: [email protected] Usertags: perl-5.28-transition hh2018 The upstream version of this package has not worked since 5.18, and we have had to apply several fixes in Debian since. The build has now broken again with Perl 5.27: http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/perl-5.27-throwaway/libembperl-perl_2.5.0-11/libembperl-perl_2.5.0-11_amd64-2018-05-18T08:09:28Z.build The problem in this case might not be that hard to fix, but I have been consisdering deprecating/removing this for some time, as there is a limit to how long we can be de facto upstream for this type of package. Currently the package has a popcon of inst: 37 / vote: 22 / recent: 1 suggesting that it is barely used anywhere. So I suggest that rather than spending any more time maintaining it, we remove it from Debian. CC to debian-perl to get wider exposure of the proposal. Cheers, Dominic. ----- End forwarded message ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
