Bug#788759: libio-socket-multicast6-perl: FTBFS without multicast interfaces

[intrigeri]

Hi,

[2 years after the initial bug report, and 1 year after I wrote the
text quoted below.]

intrigeri:
> that's a leaf package, with 1 vote on popcon, and upstream didn't
> reply on the bug report since almost a year ⇒ even though this bug
> only happens in specific build environment, I'd rather remove the
> package from testing/sid so that it's not on my radar anymore.
> Thoughts? Anyone prefers fixing the bug?

Additional data points:

 - a patch for this problem this bug report is about was apparently
   applied to some VCS but never released:
   https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=56319
   We could certainly do the job an upstream maintainer would, i.e.
   review & apply it on our side.
 - last time the upstream author uploaded anything on CPAN was in 2011
 - this module did not get updated to benefit from "recent" changes in
   perl: there's a proposed patch to "Reimplement in pureperl now that
   Socket has multicast support" waiting for upstream author to
   comment since May, 2012
   (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77285)

So while we could certainly fix this bug as part of the Debian delta
(just like openSUSE apparently did), I see very little value in
investing any more time in keeping this module in Debian.

I propose we remove it from testing/sid.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri