Re: Bug#552052: lintian: add perl-modules to list of obsolete packages

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:

> Therefore I think that the perl/perl-modules split should be considered
> an internal implementation detail of the perl source package, and other
> packages should only depend on perl (or some specified versions of
> perl-base, in exceptional circumstances.)

> The first steps to this would be just a change to the perl-modules long
> description and a lintian warning triggering on the 150 or so packages
> currently (build-)depending on perl-modules. Obviously, some other
> places like the lintian recommendation in
> `versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl' [2] need to be changed, but I
> don't think there's too many of those.

This seems quite reasonable to me, and Lintian can help with eliminating
the perl-modules dependencies.  It also has the advantage of making it
easier to merge the packages down the road, if that turns out to be the
right move, so it doesn't lock out any options.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>