Bug#806544: libical-parser-sax-perl: FTBFS: t/01parse.t failure

[intrigeri]

Hi Jonas,

Niko Tyni (28 Nov 2015):
> Package: libical-parser-sax-perl
> Version: 1.09-3
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid
> Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=109258

> This package fails to build on current sid/amd64.

For the record:

 * I've just reproduced this issue on current sid/amd64.
 * I have proposed a year ago [1] to remove this package.
 * It was not shipped in Stretch due to this bug report.
 * This package has one single reverse-dependency
   (libical-parser-html-perl) that itself is a leaf package.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2016/06/msg00038.html

> [rt.cpan.org #109258] blames DateTime-Event-Recurrence-0.18
> and DateTime-Set-0.3600. The above timeline indeed matches
> libdatetime-event-recurrence-perl_0.18-1.

Since then upstream did not reply.

With all this in mind, I'm very much tempted to go ahead and request
the removal of this package + its reverse-dependency from sid, unless
someone is interested enough in this package to work on a fix (that
might be in DateTime-Event-Recurrence or elsewhere).

Jonas, what do you think?

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri