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

[intrigeri]

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.

+1

I'm not entirely happy with GnuPG::Interface, but at least it works
with modern GnuPG and some of my contributions upstream were
accepted eventually. Let's make it more obvious that it's the least
worst that we have right now.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri