Bug#907737: liblucy-perl: Project Lucy has retired

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 04:42:36PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Xavier Guimard (2018-09-01 08:46:22)
> > Package: liblucy-perl
> > Version: Project Lucy has retired
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > As announced in http://lucy.apache.org/, project Lucy has retired. I
> > think we should remove it from buster
> 
> liblucy-perl has two reverse dependencies:
> 
>   * openguides
>   * libcatmandu-store-lucy-perl
> 
> It is fine by me to drop libcatmandu-store-lucy-perl with liblucy-perl: 
> Other Catmandu search backends exist but need to be packaged, but 
> shipping no Catmandu search backend is better than shipping a backend 
> dead upstream!
> 
> @Dominique: Is it ok to drop openguides, or can it be made to not depend 
> on liblucy-perl?

I am still interested in OpenGuides (I run several instances using
the Debian package).

I suspect not that many users use Lucy, so I'm fine with dropping that
dependency. Please ping me in a couple of weeks if I haven't got around
to that.

Ironically, Lucy is more alive than Plucene, which saw it last upstream
release in 2005, and which is probably used by most OpenGuides sites.

Cheers,
Dominic.