Bug#1132416: perl-tokyocabinet: tokyocabinet is deprecated and will be removed from Debian

[gregor herrmann]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: libtokyocabinet-perl -- RoM; Tokyio Cabinet is going away
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:libtokyocabinet-perl


On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:06:15 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:

>Source: libtokyocabinet-perl
>Severity: important
>
>Control: block 1131879 by -1
>
>Dear maintainers,
>
>The Tokyo Cabinet library has been deprecated upstream for many years,
>
>Given its age and lack of upstream maintenance, Tokyo Cabinet is starting
>to show increasing issues (see e.g. #1114412). Therefore, there is an
>ongoing effort to remove Tokyo Cabinet from Debian. This effort is
>tracked with bug #1131879.
>
>As perl-tokyocabinet is all about tokyocabinet, it is probably the time
>to retire this package.
>
>There are no reverse dependencies in Debain on libtokyocabinet-perl.

… and a very low popcon.

So let's remove it right away.


Cheers,
gregor

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