Re: Status and future of libembperl-perl
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:31:53AM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> while looking for potential removal candidates, I somewhat randomly
> stumbled upon libembperl-perl, whose current version in the archive is
> 2.5.0-15. Yes, -15, because it looks like upstream became inactive in
> 2014, and since then, members of our team adapted upstream code for
> every change in the surrounding ecosystem:
> Most of these patches were forwarded upstream, yielding no
> reaction there.
>
> So, let's face it: we've de facto been maintaining the upstream code
> base since 6 years. I expect that if we keep this package in Debian,
> we'll have to keep doing this on a regular basis.
>
> Is this what we want?
Last time this came up was two years ago with #899021.
At that time Axel (explicitly cc'd just in case) was strongly against
removal.
Axel, is this still the case?
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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