Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 bookworm sid

8 years later, does anyone think that libarch-perl (and tla itself)
would still be useful?

Even git-arch is no longer shipped in the past two Debian releases.

cu
Adrian

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 08:42:43AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:50:35AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Adrian,
> 
> Hi Axel,
> 
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > first of all, please Cc the submitter when answering to him
> >
> > My answer was not to specific to the submitter but to the bug report
> > and the discussion in general so that others have data to make up
> > their own opinion. (Otherwise I likely would have written "Hi Adrian"
> > at the start of the mail.) The fact that I think that libarch-perl/tla
> > should not be removed (yet) is solely the result of my number digging.
> > As I said I don't use tla, hence I wouldn't be affected by it's or
> > libarch-perl's removal.
> 
> when you argue against my suggestion in the bug, it would be fair to let 
> me know so that I have a chance to respond.
> 
> >...
> > The "Suggests" does IMHO not explain it, because suggests are not
> > installed by default.
> >...
> 
> I have no numbers to back that up, but I'd guess many people might
> read "arch" as "architecture" and then simply install it since it
> was suggested and sounds useful.
> 
> > > And I do therefore also doubt that there is any value left in 
> > > libarch-perl.
> > 
> > I'm still not convinced since there are currently still a few votes
> > despite the descreasing popcon (in absolute numbers as well as in
> > percentage) which seem to be around 10% of the highest peak. IMHO
> > that's quite some "value left". (And yes, "left" fits. :-)
> >...
> 
> As I said the last bug report from a user in the Debian BTS was in 2009,
> and in the upstream bugtracker [1] the last bug report from a user was 
> in 2007.
> 
> I frequently run into projects still using CVS, but I cannot recall the 
> last time I saw an active Arch repositury.
> 
> Can you show 1 (one) Arch repository that still exists and had a new
> commit in the last 3 years?
> 
> > 		Regards, Axel
> 
> cu
> Adrian
> 
> [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnu-arch