On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:37:29 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-perl@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : libalien-base-modulebuild-perl … > . > This module is in maintenance mode, use Alien::Build for new stuff. Sorry to be a pain again :) but: Do we really need this? Alien::Build is already questionable¹, although I admit that patching the requirement out can be a bit cumbersome -- but a subclass that says "This module is in maintenance mode, use Alien::Build for new stuff." looks a bit like a candidate for not-packaging to me … Cheers, gregor ¹ it's great for e.g. Windows where building C libraries is a pain but on Debian it's problematic as downloading stuff from the internet is not something we can or want to do -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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