Alex Muntada wrote...
> Andreas Beckmann:
>
> > there are some orphanged, RC-buggy perl module packages in sid. Maybe
> > you want to adopt them as the team, or get them removed from the archive
> > instead.
> >
> > src:libarray-refelem-perl
> > src:libdata-dumpxml-perl
>
> Searching in sources.debian.net for "use Array::RefElem" and
> "require Array::RefElem" didn't show anything meaningful.
> Same for Data::DumpXML, which depends on Array::RefElem.
>
> Therefore, I think they can be safely removed.
Au contraire, this approach, while understandable, causes a lot of
grieve downstream and at sites that use Debian as the base of their
own development work, BTDT. So as long as they serve a sensible
purpose and there's no drop-in replacement, they should be kept.
In other words: If you're willing to sponsor the upload, I'll take
care of them.
Christoph
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