Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 RM: libcrypt-gpg-perl -- RoQA; unmaintained and probably broken Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org Control: severity -2 normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:16:35 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > gregor herrmann: > > On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:11:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > >> Over on https://bugs.debian.org/873753, Ricardo Mones wrote: > >> > >> > The current maintainer of libcrypt-gpg-perl, Roberto Jimeno > >> > <robertojimen...@terra.es>, > >> > is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. > >> fwiw, this package has not been updated for many years (nearly a > >> decade), and is several versions behind upstream (1.52, in unstable > >> today, was released upstream in 2005!). I strongly doubt whether it > >> even works with modern versions of GnuPG. It also has no reverse > >> dependencies. > > > Yes. > > > I had a short look; the package has direct changes to the code and > > doesn't run the test suite. Trying to enable it leads to syntax > > errors (!) in t/*.t. > > > Popcon votes: 16 is not that low, and there is a newer upstream > > release, but I think working on this package would bring more pain > > than benefit, and I also doubt it works with gpg2. > > > So +1 for removal from me. > > +1 > > I'm not entirely happy with GnuPG::Interface, but at least it works > with modern GnuPG and some of my contributions upstream were > accepted eventually. Let's make it more obvious that it's the least > worst that we have right now. Alright, cloning an RM bug. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Ben Weaver: Rose Marie
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