Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal
I was taking over maintainership of this module, but it turned out that the one place it was formerly used (gpsdrive-scripts) wasn't actually using it. So I nominate this package for removal. This was discussed on the debian-perl list; here are the reasons I proposed initially: I am nominating libtext-query-perl for removal from Debian, for the following reasons: 1. It currently fails to build with tests enabled (the package in Debian right now, not maintained within the group get, but orphaned by its original maintainer, gets around this by simply skipping the tests) 2. Test failures are not a Debian-specific issue, either, and I don't think it can be fixed without some substantial patches; CPAN Testers reports PASS (61) FAIL (84) UNKNOWN (1). We are getting errors similar to: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/5711283 -- and I'm sure many of these other reports are the same: http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Text-Query.html#Text-Query-0.07 3. The last upstream release was in 1999 (over ten years ago...) 4. The package has no maintainer (I am willing to step in to adopt the package, but without any active upstream this seems like a bad idea) 5. There have been 3 open bugs in the upstream request tracker (well, four, but one is duplicate) for over two years: https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Text-Query 6. Popcon score for libtext-query-perl is pretty high - 510 installed, 76 vote. This is probably due to it being a dependency of gpsdrive, which has a popcon of 530 installed, 91 vote. It should be noted that libtext-query-sql-perl (the other package which depends on Text::Query, and written by the same upstream author) has a significantly lower popcon score. Full discussion here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2010/02/msg00035.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
