Bug#653301: Proposed-RM: libdate-ical-perl -- RoM; deprecated, no rdeps, alternatives exist

[gregor herrmann]

Package: libdate-ical-perl
Version: 2.678-1
Severity: wishlist

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I suggest to remove libdate-ical-perl from the archive.

Upstream writes (in Changes) that people should be using DateTime
modules nowadays, and he's just fixing occasional bugs.

It has no build or runtime reverse dependencies (apart from a
spurious Suggests in libtest-class-perl in oldstable).

libdatetime-format-ical-perl exists as a nice replacement (I've
switched a script yesterday from Date::ICal to DateTime::Format::ICal
yesterday after stumbling over a design flaw in the former).

I'll reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org if there are no complaints
in the next days.

Cheers,
gregor

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