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Re: Bug#1052224: ITP: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl -- subclass of Module::Build for building Alien:: modules and their libraries



On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:37:29 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : libalien-base-modulebuild-perl
…
>  .
>  This module is in maintenance mode, use Alien::Build for new stuff.

Sorry to be a pain again :) but: Do we really need this?

Alien::Build is already questionable¹, although I admit that patching
the requirement out can be a bit cumbersome -- but a subclass that
says "This module is in maintenance mode, use Alien::Build for new
stuff." looks a bit like a candidate for not-packaging to me …

Cheers,
gregor


¹ it's great for e.g. Windows where building C libraries is a pain
but on Debian it's problematic as downloading stuff from the internet
is not something we can or want to do

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