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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 05:48:22PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.

That's now done in openguides 0.82-2.

Thanks,
Dominic.