Bug#735556: libnet-subnets-perl: New version available with IPv6 support

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, 16.01.2014 14:42:15 +0100 |=-
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:12:47 +0100, Dominique Fournier wrote:
> 
> > Package: libnet-subnets-perl
> > Version: 1.0-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: ipv6
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > There is a new libnet-subnets-perl available on the cpan site with IPv6 support.
> > Could you package it ?
> > 
> > http://search.cpan.org/~juerd/Net-Subnets-1.03/
> 
> This page doesn't exists. What _does_ exist is
> http://search.cpan.org/~juerd/Net-Subnet-1.03/ and
> https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Subnet
> 
> Note the Subnet_s_ vs. Subnet.
> 
> Net::Subnet_s_ seems to be inexistant on both search.cpan.org and
> metacpan.org.
> We'll have to check if Net::Subnet is the same or a successor or
> whatever.
> 
> (I'm a bit skeptical:
> d/copyright and d/changelog in
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libnet-subnets-perl.git;a=tree;f=debian;hb=HEAD
> have a different copyright holder and older versions,
> https://metacpan.org/source/JUERD/Net-Subnet-1.03/Changes starts at
> 1.00)

It is my impression too that those are different things. The APIs seem 
completely non-compatible.

Should we drop libnet-subnets-perl from Debian? There are no 
reverse-dependencies, and the popcon seems to go down for the last 18 
months.