Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: Ludovic Drolez <ldro...@debian.org>, Debian BackupPC Team <team+pkg-backu...@tracker.debian.org>, MIA Team <m...@qa.debian.org>
Disclaimer: I'm not the maintainer of libfile-rsyncp-perl but I'm one of the maintainers of BackupPC (X-Debbugs-Cc'ed the team) to which this package belonged before Ludovic (X-Debbugs-Cc'ed) orphaned BackupPC (see https://bugs.debian.org/887490) but seems to have forgotten to orphan the related libfile-rsyncp-perl as well. So this request is half RoQA (as I'm not really the maintainer), half RoM (with my Debian BackupPC Team hat on). Anyway, please remove libfile-rsyncp-perl from Debian Unstable: * It currently has 3 RC bugs without any reaction from the package maintainer: Missing required d/rules targets, dh compat 5 or 6, missing source for a configure script. The oldest one is over 2 years old. * It FTBFS since the recent debhelper 13.6 upload due to the removal of support for dh compat levels 5 and 6. * It has no reverse dependencies (verified with "dak rm -n -R libfile-rsyncp-perl") as it was only ever needed by BackupPC ≤ 3.x (at least inside Debian) and also was written by the BackupPC upstream, see https://metacpan.org/pod/File::RsyncP and https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#BackupPC-4.0 And Bullseye already has BackupPC 4.x. So the current Debian BackupPC Team doesn't really care as we don't need it anymore. It has been replaced (function-wise, not file-wise) by the backuppc-rsync package, maintained by the Debian BackupPC Team. * It was not part of the Bullseye release due to at least one of the mentioned RC bugs. * Last upload was in late 2015 and was an NMU. (Last maintainer upload was in spring 2015.) And it's missing one new upstream release from 2020, see https://metacpan.org/dist/File-RsyncP/changes Thanks in advance.
