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

[Philipp Kern]

Control: severity 640206 serious

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:56:05AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 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.

I think #640206 should then be transitively RC as well, raising
severity.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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