On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:19:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > I don't think it is. If we're going to care about partial upgrades > > at all, we may as well make them work robustly, and turn those > > relationships into Depends. I'm happy to do that for wheezy. > > Thanks for the reminder about that bug; the list of affected packages > > there is bigger than the list I've filed bugs for based on my > > rebuild logs. I've added a task to the wiki to check these again and > > file bugs where needed. > > Done (mainly for Switch). Haven't done this for Shell since this won't > be removed until 5.16. They should all be tagged perl-5.14-transition. > > Any objections to make raising the strength of the perl-modules > relationship to libswitch-perl and libclass-isa-perl to Depends for > 5.14? > > We'd need to make those packages Priority: standard before doing this. > Note that this would just be for the wheezy cycle, and could be dropped > afterwards. I've now bumped the priority of libswitch-perl and libclass-isa-perl, and pushed out the change in dependencies for the next 5.14 release. > > It may be that we can leave libpod-plainer-perl at Recommends of > > course (or for that matter drop it down to Suggests). > > Based on your analysis, there is no software in Debian using Pod::Plainer. > This suggests that the module is little-enough used that we could drop > the dependency on this one down to Suggests. Any objections? I've also done this. > > Yet to analyze: Devel::Dprof and Perl4::CoreLibs. Assuming that wheezy > > releases with 5.14 and not 5.16, if we catch all uses of these before > > wheezy releases, we won't need to add Depends in wheezy+1 (but this > > assumption may turn out to be invalid). This is looking very likely now, which is even more reason to do this analysis. I'll try and get this done soon. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
