Bug#608583: Bug#640206: barnowl: please stop using libnet-irc-perl

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: retitle -1 barnowl: uses libnet-irc-perl, which is abandoned upstream
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream
Control: severity 608583 serious

-=| Ansgar Burchardt, 03.09.2011 13:43:21 +0200 |=-
> Package: barnowl
> Version: 1.6.2-1+b2
> Severity: important
> 
> As libnet-irc-perl has been unmaintained since 2004, we would like to
> remove the package from Debian before the wheezy release.  Please 
> switch to an alternative library such as libpoe-component-irc-perl.

Net::IRC dependency is removed upstream in version 1.8, released 
October 2011.

Since barnowl is the only remaining package with a hard dependency on 
libnet-irc-perl, and since there is a fix upstream, I am raising the 
severity of #608583 to make libnet-irc-perl get out of jessie. This 
will remove barnowl too, unless the package is upgraded to a newer 
upstream release.

On a side note, adding Homepage to barnowl's control file would be 
nice. The upstream project is at http://barnowl.mit.edu/ . Ditto for 
debian/watch and debian/copyright.
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