On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:21:15PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > Alessandro Ghedini <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 06:59:10PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > >> >From upstream Changes: > > >> > > >> DEPRECATED DEPRECATED DEPRECATED DEPRECATED > > >> Version::Requirements is now DEPRECATED > > >> Use CPAN::Meta::Requirements, which is a drop-in replacement. > > >> > > [...] > > >> After they are either fixed upstream or patched in Debian, we can RM > > >> libversion-requirements-perl. > > > > > > Since Version::Requirements is also in Perl core (since 5.13.10) this > > > might > > > be easier. It would just make backporting those packages a little harder > > > (they would need the depends to be re-added in order to be backported), > > > and > > > would be only a temporary fix until they get updated. > > > > We can have perl (>= 5.14) | libversion-requirements-perl in the > > dependencies if we want to make backports easy. > > > > Are there plans to remove the package from Perl core again now that it > > has been deprecated? Seems like bad timing. > > It is stil there in perl v5.15.6
Just checked in git, according to perldelta [0], it will be removed in v5.17.0. Cheers [0] http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/36a6a1..ef337e:/pod/perldelta.pod -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

