[pkg-gnupg-maint] GnuPG Perl bindings in Debian [Re: Bug#873753: O: libcrypt-gpg-perl -- An Object Oriented Interface to GnuPG]

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:11:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> Over on https://bugs.debian.org/873753, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> 
> > The current maintainer of libcrypt-gpg-perl, Roberto Jimeno <robertojimenoca at terra.es>,
> > is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package now.
> fwiw, this package has not been updated for many years (nearly a
> decade), and is several versions behind upstream (1.52, in unstable
> today, was released upstream in 2005!).  I strongly doubt whether it
> even works with modern versions of GnuPG.  It also has no reverse
> dependencies.

Yes.

I had a short look; the package has direct changes to the code and
doesn't run the test suite. Trying to enable it leads to syntax
errors (!) in t/*.t.

Popcon votes: 16 is not that low, and there is a newer upstream
release, but I think working on this package would bring more pain
than benefit, and I also doubt it works with gpg2.

So +1 for removal from me.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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