Bug#912682: e: Bug#912682: usefulness of this package?

[Cyrille Bollu]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:13:11 +0000 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:06:45AM +0100, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> > From its debian/control file:
> >
> > >This module is already included as part of Perl's core distribution, so
> > this
> > > package is only beneficial when newer features or bug fixes are
required.
> >
> > I don't understand how....
>
> The perl package provides the same package via a Provides entry:
> libextutils-parsexs-perl (= 3.390000). This is newer than the version
> in the separate package (against which this bug is filed) so this
> package will never be selected for installation.
>
> This could change if a newer version is uploaded, but until then,
> the separate package should not be released.
>
> Dominic.
>

Ok but I don't see how this bug differs from #915550 and #915876 for both
of which the intent seems to remove the corresponding packages.

Shouldn't this package also be considered for removal?

Cyrille
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