Bug#826448: libsyntax-highlight-engine-simple-languages-perl: Use of the encoding pragma is deprecated

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 02 Jul 2017 12:08:18 -0300, David Bremner wrote:

> > This is fatal in Perl 5.26 (currently in experimental), making the test
> > suite fail. However, the package still builds, probably because the
> > for loop in debian/rules doesn't abort on errors.
> 
> As it happens I was just wanting to remove myself from Uploaders,
> effectively orphaning the package. I think we can probably just RM this
> package for buster.

I was just looking at the package, and given its, ehm, unorthodox
structure, I wouldn't mind removing it as well.

It has one reverse Recommends currently which should be removed:

Reverse-Recommends
==================
* libsyntax-highlight-engine-simple-perl


Popcon: inst 11, vote 0.

Cheers,
gregor

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