Re: Bug#414385: Removing RC buggy leaf packages with low popularity?
Hi Dominic, hi Olof,
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 11:37:07AM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:30:47PM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On 2014-01-25 14:46 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:19:26PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> > > > libimdb-film-perl [popcon:13]
> > >
> > > Fine to remove this one. I adopted it some time ago into the group,
> > > for pushing the libdigest-sha1-perl removal. The RC bug is open since
> > > very early, to not let libimdb-film-perl, as the "imdb.com website is
> > > likely to change during the lifetime of a stabel release" to cite the
> > > former maintainer.
> > >
> > > I personally don't use this module, and wouldn't mind if this is
> > > removed.
> >
> > On the other hand, the bug [1] doesn't document any actual issues seen
> > today afaict, and the note about using volatile seems relevant. Also,
> > upstream is active, with releases in 2013.
> >
> > The situation is not unlike those faced by various video fetchers
> > (e.g. libquvi-scripts, youtube-dl etc etc). Of course, it's your
> > choice; I don't really know the burden of maintaining scraping modules
> > and updating them via *-updates.
>
> I'm CCing the bug so this discussion is recorded in the relevant place.
> I think I would tend to agree that we should give the package the benefit
> of the doubt; closing this bug and dealing with issues as they arise,
> via stable-updates if needed. But then again I also don't use the module...
Same disclaimer here. But agree, let's give it a try and deal with any
issue as they arise.
Regards,
Salvatore
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