Bug#899021: libembperl-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.27, unmaintained upstream

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:17:43AM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Friday, 18 May 2018 17:08:38 CEST Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Currently the package has a popcon of inst: 37 / vote: 22 / recent: 1
> > suggesting that it is barely used anywhere. 
> 
> Reading its features, I think this module may have been a good idea when it 
> was created back in 1997, but I'm afraid it's now completely obsoleted by 
> modern JavaScript frameworks.  
> 
> > So I suggest that rather than
> > spending any more time maintaining it, we remove it from Debian.
> 
> Agreed.

I asked the Embperl mailing list about this, and although noone
who actually uses the Embperl Debian packages spoke up, there was
definitely some interest in keeping it alive. I have hopefully reflected
the views of pkg-perl here:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-embperl/201805.mbox/browser

Cheers,
Dominic.