Bug#912682: e: Bug#912682: usefulness of this package?g

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:56:07 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> Per our new policy[1], we'll remove this after July if no new
> upstream update appears.
> [1] <https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/policy.html#Dual-lived_Modules>

Looks like this hasn't happened :)

I came to this bug as ExtUtils::ParseXS 3.44 was released yesterday.

So the current situation is:

We have libextutils-parsexs-perl 3.350000-1 in unstable.

For ExtUtils::ParseXS in perl core we have

  v5.32.1    3.40      
…
  v5.34.0    3.43      
  v5.35.0    3.43      
  v5.35.1    3.43      
  v5.35.2    3.43      
  v5.35.3    3.43      
  v5.35.4    3.44      
  v5.35.5    3.44      
  v5.35.6    3.44      
  v5.35.7    3.44      

This means we could upload 3.44(0000) to unstable, and after the
transition to 5.34 this would still be ok, and after the migration to
5.36 in a couple of months we'd be in the same situation as now.

If I understand it correctly, ExtUtils::ParseXS is one of those
dual-lifed modules which are primarily maintained in perl core, and
then also released to the CPAN (ideally when a new perl is releaesed,
right now a couple of months later), which means that there probably
won't by any release where CPAN precedes perl core.

If this understanding is correct, than keeping libextutils-parsexs-perl
as a separate package doesn't make a lot of sense (it will only be
newer in the window between new upstream perl releases and our
migrations in Debian), and I propose to remove it.


Cheers,
gregor

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