Source: libwx-perl-datawalker-perl
Version: 0.02-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

While investigating the reverse-dependency tree of webkit2gtk for 
#1148038, I noticed that libwx-perl-datawalker-perl depends on libwx-perl, but 
nothing in Debian depends on libwx-perl-datawalker-perl:

>smcv@coccia ~ % dak rm -R -n libwx-perl-datawalker-perl
>Will remove the following packages from unstable:
>
>libwx-perl-datawalker-perl |     0.02-3 | source, all
...
>Checking reverse dependencies...
>No dependency problem found.

As mentioned by the libwx-perl maintainer in 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054146#42, libwx-perl 
is basically unmaintained upstream, and it currently has a RC bug (FTBFS).

Is this package still useful, or would it be better to remove it so that 
developers no longer spend QA time on it?

Thanks,
    smcv

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