On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:54:52PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > It turns out the lintian lab is accessible at lintian.d.o but doesn't > have unpacked source packages. > > So I did it myself and grepped through 3394 unpacked source packages > (those that build depend on perl, or produce binary packages that depend, > recommend, or suggest perl). > > Results of grepping for "use module" and "require module" follow. I've put > the raw data available at > http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/deprecated-modules.txt.gz > in case someone wants to conduct a more comprehensive search. > > I had a quick look through these and removed a few false positives, > but there may still be some left.
[snip results] > Preliminary conclusion: we're going to need at least three of the four > modules packaged, and I'm inclined to throw in Pod::Plainer as well > for the sake of completeness although nothing in Debian uses it. Yep, makes sense. 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]
