Re: Bug#912682: e: Bug#912682: usefulness of this package?g
- To: 912682@bugs.debian.org, Cyrille Bollu <cyrille.bollu@gmail.com>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#912682: e: Bug#912682: usefulness of this package?g
- From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:21:44 +0100
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 03:04:17AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:56:07 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>
> > Per our new policy[1], we'll remove this after July if no new
> > upstream update appears.
> > [1] <https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/policy.html#Dual-lived_Modules>
>
> Looks like this hasn't happened :)
>
> I came to this bug as ExtUtils::ParseXS 3.44 was released yesterday.
>
> So the current situation is:
>
> We have libextutils-parsexs-perl 3.350000-1 in unstable.
>
> For ExtUtils::ParseXS in perl core we have
>
> v5.32.1 3.40
> …
> v5.34.0 3.43
> v5.35.0 3.43
> v5.35.1 3.43
> v5.35.2 3.43
> v5.35.3 3.43
> v5.35.4 3.44
> v5.35.5 3.44
> v5.35.6 3.44
> v5.35.7 3.44
>
> This means we could upload 3.44(0000) to unstable, and after the
> transition to 5.34 this would still be ok, and after the migration to
> 5.36 in a couple of months we'd be in the same situation as now.
>
> If I understand it correctly, ExtUtils::ParseXS is one of those
> dual-lifed modules which are primarily maintained in perl core, and
> then also released to the CPAN (ideally when a new perl is releaesed,
> right now a couple of months later), which means that there probably
> won't by any release where CPAN precedes perl core.
>
> If this understanding is correct, than keeping libextutils-parsexs-perl
> as a separate package doesn't make a lot of sense (it will only be
> newer in the window between new upstream perl releases and our
> migrations in Debian), and I propose to remove it.
Good plan. I've just filed the removal request: https://bugs.debian.org/1009785
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