Re: libjcode-pm-perl: Debian package should be named 'libjcode-perl'
Hi Jonas and Dominique,
thank you both for your comments
Am Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 12:40:58PM +0200 schrieb Dominique Dumont:
> On Wednesday, 11 June 2025 08:40:40 Central European Summer Time Andreas Tille
> wrote:
> > I wonder if this is a good idea. There is another package named
> > libjcode-perl[1] which is maintained by the same author and which
> > is definitely different from this package.
>
> libjcode-perl is a perl 4 library which is superseded by libjcode-pm-perl for
> perl 5.
>
> I guess that -pm- was added to distinguish between the perl 4 and perl 5
> libraries.
>
> We may want to drop libjcode-perl as it has not reverse dependencies and perl
> 4 has not been shipped by Debian for quite a while.
Ahhh, that's definitely interesting: Most probably I should turn the
ITS bug #1107307 into a pre-removal warning and if not answered turn
this into a removal request.
> Then, we may rename libjcode-pm-perl to the old name. I not clear on the
> process involved to avoid confusion with the old libjcode-perl package.
>
> The question is: is this rename worth the trouble ?
Most probably not - at least not for the moment. I intend to move
libjcode-pm-perl to Debian Perl group maintenance. The former
maintainer seems to be inactive for several years. The decision whether
to rename or not might be drawn later once libjcode-perl was removed.
I agree with Jonas that the package will profit from being maintained
at CPAN and will suggest this to the author.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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