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

[gregor herrmann]

reassign 653301 ftp.debian.org
retitle 653301 RM: libdate-ical-perl -- RoM; deprecated, no rdeps, alternatives exist
severity 653301 normal
thanks

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:07:26 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:

> 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.

Ok, doing so now ...


Cheers,
gregor

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