On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:30:47PM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote: > On 2014-01-25 14:46 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:19:26PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > > > libimdb-film-perl [popcon:13] > > > > Fine to remove this one. I adopted it some time ago into the group, > > for pushing the libdigest-sha1-perl removal. The RC bug is open since > > very early, to not let libimdb-film-perl, as the "imdb.com website is > > likely to change during the lifetime of a stabel release" to cite the > > former maintainer. > > > > I personally don't use this module, and wouldn't mind if this is > > removed. > > On the other hand, the bug [1] doesn't document any actual issues seen > today afaict, and the note about using volatile seems relevant. Also, > upstream is active, with releases in 2013. > > The situation is not unlike those faced by various video fetchers > (e.g. libquvi-scripts, youtube-dl etc etc). Of course, it's your > choice; I don't really know the burden of maintaining scraping modules > and updating them via *-updates.
I'm CCing the bug so this discussion is recorded in the relevant place. I think I would tend to agree that we should give the package the benefit of the doubt; closing this bug and dealing with issues as they arise, via stable-updates if needed. But then again I also don't use the module... Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
