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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Source: libembperl-perl
Version: 2.5.0-11
Severity: serious
Justification: unmaintained upstream, and will shortly break in Debian
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.28-transition hh2018

The upstream version of this package has not worked since 5.18, and we
have had to apply several fixes in Debian since. The build has now
broken again with Perl 5.27:

http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/perl-5.27-throwaway/libembperl-perl_2.5.0-11/libembperl-perl_2.5.0-11_amd64-2018-05-18T08:09:28Z.build

The problem in this case might not be that hard to fix, but I have
been consisdering deprecating/removing this for some time, as there is
a limit to how long we can be de facto upstream for this type of
package.

Currently the package has a popcon of inst: 37 / vote: 22 / recent: 1
suggesting that it is barely used anywhere. So I suggest that rather than
spending any more time maintaining it, we remove it from Debian.

CC to debian-perl to get wider exposure of the proposal.

Cheers,
Dominic.