On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:13:02AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:12:40PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 05:33:55PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > This is a placeholder/reminder, as 5.18 isn't out yet. > > > There are a number of deprecations coming up, listed at > > > As of 5.17.11, the full list seems to be > > I played a little with codesearch.debian.net; results below. > > > Archive-Extract > > Needed by at least libalien-sdl-perl and libmodule-extract-perl. > > > B-Lint > > Probably not used in other packages. > > > CPANPLUS-Dist-Build > > Used by CPANPLUS. > > > CPANPLUS > > Possibly used by Module::Install (and embedded versions of it?)
Packaged before, and then removed back in 2005 (RoQA): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292754 However this was mainly because it was orphaned. I don't *think* it would go against the spirit of that removal to reintroduce it. > > File-CheckTree > > Probably not used in other packages. > > > Log-Message-Simple > > Used by Term-UI > > > Log-Message > > Used by CPANPLUS, Log-Message-Simple and Term-UI. > > > Module-Pluggable > > Used by CPANPLUS, cipux, libcatalyst-perl, jifty? etc. > > > Object-Accessor > > Used by CPANPLUS > > > Pod-LaTeX > > Used by cloog, liblatex-encode-perl, libtex-encode-perl > > > Term-UI > > Used by oar, libdist-zilla-perl. > > > Text-Soundex > > Used by libnet-ldap-perl, libsql-statement-perl, libmodule-info-perl?, > libgedcom-perl? > > > We probably need to package all of these separately. If jessie is going > > to release with Perl 5.18, adding them as recommendations to the perl > > package should be enough. If we release with something later we probably > > need real dependencies for one release cycle. > > According to the above, we could possibly drop B-Lint and File-CheckTree > if we assume that user code doesn't need them. Not sure how probable > that is. I'm somewhat inclined to lean on the safe side and package > those as well. Yes, that's roughly what we decided for the perl 5.14 deprecations IIRC. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
