Control: severity 640206 serious On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:56:05AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Control: retitle -1 barnowl: uses libnet-irc-perl, which is abandoned upstream > Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream > Control: severity 608583 serious > > -=| Ansgar Burchardt, 03.09.2011 13:43:21 +0200 |=- > > Package: barnowl > > Version: 1.6.2-1+b2 > > Severity: important > > > > As libnet-irc-perl has been unmaintained since 2004, we would like to > > remove the package from Debian before the wheezy release. Please > > switch to an alternative library such as libpoe-component-irc-perl. > > Net::IRC dependency is removed upstream in version 1.8, released > October 2011. > > Since barnowl is the only remaining package with a hard dependency on > libnet-irc-perl, and since there is a fix upstream, I am raising the > severity of #608583 to make libnet-irc-perl get out of jessie. This > will remove barnowl too, unless the package is upgraded to a newer > upstream release. I think #640206 should then be transitively RC as well, raising severity. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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