Hi, sorry for the late reply, this came in during my holidays and I noticed it today due to the testing removal.
Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Currently the package has a popcon of inst: 37 / vote: 22 / recent: 1 Of which at least two boxes are from myself. > So I suggest that rather than spending any more time maintaining it, > we remove it from Debian. I strongly disagree. I definitely want to continue to use Embperl in Debian. Dominique Dumont wrote: > Reading its features, I think this module may have been a good idea when it > was created back in 1997, but I'm afraid it's now completely obsoleted by > modern JavaScript frameworks. Pfff! You can't really replace Perl code with JavaScript on the backend, especially if you look at the state of e.g. npm in Debian. Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > I asked the Embperl mailing list about this, and although noone > who actually uses the Embperl Debian packages spoke up, I do. And JFTR: I'm in the Uploaders list, too. Additionally upstream spoke up in that thread, too. > there was definitely some interest in keeping it alive. I have > hopefully reflected the views of pkg-perl here: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-embperl/201805.mbox/browser No, IMHO not. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
