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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

control: reassign 907737 ftp.debian.org
control: retitle 907737 RM: liblucy-perl -- ROM; dead upstream

Hi Ftpmasters,

Please drop liblucy and libcatmandu-store-lucy-perl from sid.

Quoting Xavier (2018-09-12 23:35:34)
> Le 10/09/2018 à 00:54, Dominic Hargreaves a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> Hello Jonas,
> 
> let's start removing libcatmandu-store-lucy-perl and liblucy-perl ?

Hereby done.  Thanks for nudging, Xavier!

 - Jonas

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