Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi Axel,

first of all, please Cc the submitter when answering to him - the BTS 
does *not* send a copy to the submitter except when you add either his 
email address or <bugnumber>-submitter at bugs.debian.org to the Cc.

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git-arch
git suggests git-arch, and git-all depends on git-arch.
git-arch depends on tla.

That explains the increasing number of people who have tla installed.

If there are still any old Arch repos left anywhere I do see the point 
of git-arch being available for converting them.

But I seriously doubt anyone is still using GNU Arch, which is dead 
upstream since 2006.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=tla
The latest open bug from someone actually using it seems to be #419817
from 2007.
And according to the package changelog, no more recent bugs from users 
were ever fixed. [1]

And I do therefore also doubt that there is any value left in 
libarch-perl.

That's my answer to you, and my attempt to convince you.
If that doesn't convince you, please follow the advice I gave when 
reporting this bug:
  Feel free to close this bug if you disagree.

cu
Adrian

[1] bugs like FTBFS do not indicate that anyone uses it

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