Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags -1 bookworm sid 8 years later, does anyone think that libarch-perl (and tla itself) would still be useful?
Even git-arch is no longer shipped in the past two Debian releases. cu Adrian On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 08:42:43AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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
