Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Now that fusionforge-plugin-globalsearch has been removed from unstable and
cil has dropped its unused Build-Depends, nothing depends on
libgetopt-mixed-perl any more.
Orphaning or removal was suggested in 2009, with no response from its
Debian maintainer in over a decade. The upstream package was declared
obsolete by its upstream maintainer more than a decade ago (2007),
because Getopt::Long grew equivalent functionality in Perl 5.005 - but
the upstream release that added deprecation warnings never made it into
Debian because it's effectively unmaintained in Debian, which resulted
in dh-dist-zilla briefly gaining a dependency on it (since fixed).
I think it's about time this package goes away.
smcv
