Re: Orphaned perl packages

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 09:56:57AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:02:15 -0400, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> >
> >> ich gehe gerade die aktuellen orphaned-Pakete durch, vielleicht
> >> wollt ihr die auch in Debian Perl Group aufnehmen? (oder ggf.
> >> entfernen, wenn ihr wisst das es fuer manches bessere Perl-
> >> Module gibt):
> >> 
> >> arch-perl
> >> migemo-perl
> >
> > For those not reading German: Moritz asks about the two above listed
> > orphaned packages - do we want to adopt them or are they maybe
> > removal candidates?
> 
> We already adopted arch-perl, but the source package is now called
> libarch-perl.

Looks like we have two versions in the archive, then :-)

I'll file a removal bug for arch-perl.
 
> migemo-perl says itself that it is obsolete:
> 
>   This is an obsolete version of migemo. A newer version is written in
>   Ruby.
> 
> The Ruby version is also available in Debian (migemo).  Given that
> nobody has adopted the package for almost a year, I say it can be
> removed from Debian.  The popcon is also not very high: 16 for
> migemo-perl and 35 for liblingua-romkan-perl, vote is even lower:
> only 1 (6).  I will change [1] to a RM request.

Sounds good.

Cheers,
        Moritz