Bug#639878: RM: libemail-send-perl -- RoM; deprecated upstream, please use libemail-sender-perl instead

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:33:47AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> libemail-send-perl is deprecated upstream; libemail-sender-perl should
>> be used instead.
>> 
>> I'll reassign this bug to ftp.d.o once the reverse dependencies have
>> been updated.
>
> Is it actually a maintenance burden at the moment? My understanding
> of the upstream docs is that it's not going away, probably serves the
> purpose where currently used, and might still be useful to our users.

Not yet, but given that the last changelog entries contain a very
prominent notice to consider libemail-sender-perl instead:

   "** PLEASE CONSIDER USING EMAIL-SENDER INSTEAD **"

and that libemail-sender-perl is written by the same upstream author,
I think it is better to switch the remaining few packages to use that
instead of having to eventually maintain a package for Debian that is
no longer maintained upstream.

Ansgar