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
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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 …