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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

sorry for the late reply, this came in during my holidays and I 
noticed it today due to the testing removal.

Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Currently the package has a popcon of inst: 37 / vote: 22 / recent: 1

Of which at least two boxes are from myself.

> So I suggest that rather than spending any more time maintaining it,
> we remove it from Debian.

I strongly disagree. I definitely want to continue to use Embperl in
Debian.

Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 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.  

Pfff! You can't really replace Perl code with JavaScript on the
backend, especially if you look at the state of e.g. npm in Debian.

Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> I asked the Embperl mailing list about this, and although noone
> who actually uses the Embperl Debian packages spoke up,

I do. And JFTR: I'm in the Uploaders list, too.

Additionally upstream spoke up in that thread, too.

> 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

No, IMHO not.

		Regards, Axel
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