Hi,
I know it's some years ago that I did the last release of Embperl. Also I
personally still use it in our company, I didn't had the time to prepare new
releases.
As Dominic already wrote it's usually not much effort to adapt it to a new Perl
version, but setting up the test environment takes time.
So if anybody can help with testing, I would like to keep Embperl working and
also as part of Debian (any other distros).
Dominic, currently I have only rare access to my email. So if possible, can we
shift the decission how to continue until mid of june?
Thanks for all your work you put in Debian and Embperl
Regards
Gerald
----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
Von: "Dominic Hargreaves" <d...@earth.li>
An: embperl@perl.apache.org
Gesendet: Montag, 21. Mai 2018 12:29:49
Betreff: Proposal to remove Embperl from Debian
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 <d...@earth.li> -----
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 17:08:38 +0200
From: Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li>
To: sub...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#899021: libembperl-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.27, unmaintained
upstream
Reply-To: Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li>, 899...@bugs.debian.org
Source: libembperl-perl
Version: 2.5.0-11
Severity: serious
Justification: unmaintained upstream, and will shortly break in Debian
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
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.
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