Removing backport.pl [Was: The future of backport.py]

Den tors 16 juli 2026 kl 10:21 skrev Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]>:

> I would favor to remove backport.pl too for the same reason as
> manage-backports.py: the complexity of managing these scripts is not worth
> it.
>

Shall we do this right away with 1.15.0 or should we declare it
"deprecated, will be removed in 1.16.x"?

We discussed the Perl version almost two years ago [1] and consensus was to
remove it but I don't think we ever announced it. Consensus in the thread
was that the interactive features probably were not in much use and the
non-interactive features are already replaced by the py version.

I can live with either option but I think it is important that it is a
conscious decision since we remove something that is still functional (and
which might not have a direct replacement, pending the outcome of the
backport.py discussion).

Cheers,
/Daniel


[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/1xd8xgvfz5s9pdy325p7fh9r3qybqs3p