Bug#750229: libclone-fast-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.20

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

did some digging:

gregor herrmann wrote:
> libclone-fast-perl fails to build with perl 5.20.
> Cf.
> http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/5.20/logs/20140530/misc/libclone-fast-perl_0.97-1+b2_amd64-20140530-1750.build
> 
> (The other interesting question is where 0.97 comes from ...)

This gives a hint:

$ git diff --find-copies-harder --stat  upstream/0.96..upstream/0.97
 Changes             | 10 ++++++++--
 META.json           |  2 +-
 META.yml            |  2 +-
 README => README.md |  0
 lib/Clone/Fast.pm   | 26 ++++++--------------------

Renaming README to README.md is a very strong sign that a project
moved to GitHub. And voila, https://github.com/hallta/Clone-Fast seems
very close to what we currently have in Unstable. I've put the above
URL into debian/copyright instead of the one at search.cpan.org.

Interestingly, what we know as 0.97 is known as 0.96.2 there:
https://github.com/hallta/Clone-Fast/blob/master/Changes

Very same date in the Changes files as with ours. According to
https://github.com/hallta/Clone-Fast/commit/edba0aa13032eed4a0898f12ff767491a13a64c7
our "version" never made it into Git.

Additionally, a deprecation notice has been added about one year ago
(https://github.com/hallta/Clone-Fast#deprecation):

  As of 2013-05-27, this module is no longer maintained or supported
  and has been removed from CPAN.

I guess this also explains where we got 0.97 from. :-)

  The code will continue to be hosted on Github, where anyone can feel
  free to fork it and update it. Some good alternates which should be
  relatively simple to migrate to are:

    Storable
    Clone
    Clone::PP

So maybe this module is a potential removal candidate?

Popcon is around 15 to 20 only. There seem no reverse dependencies and
no reverse build-dependencies.

		Regards, Axel
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