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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
