Re: libjcode-pm-perl: Debian package should be named 'libjcode-perl'

On Wednesday, 11 June 2025 08:40:40 Central European Summer Time Andreas Tille 
wrote:
> I wonder if this is a good idea.  There is another package named
> libjcode-perl[1] which is maintained by the same author and which
> is definitely different from this package.

libjcode-perl is a perl 4 library which is superseded by libjcode-pm-perl for 
perl 5.

I guess that -pm- was added to distinguish between the perl 4 and perl 5 
libraries.

We may want to drop libjcode-perl as it has not reverse dependencies and perl 
4 has not been shipped by Debian for quite a while.

Then, we may rename libjcode-pm-perl to the old name. I not clear on the 
process involved to avoid confusion with the old libjcode-perl package. 

The question is: is this rename worth the trouble ?

HTH