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

[gregor herrmann]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 RM: libcrypt-gpg-perl -- RoQA; unmaintained and probably broken
Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org
Control: severity -2 normal

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:16:35 +0200, intrigeri wrote:

> 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.

Alright, cloning an RM bug.


Cheers,
gregor

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