On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:18:13 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > libany-moose-perl_0.27-1 recently entered sid, the only upstream change being > add deprecation warning when this module is used > As a result, many (most?) of its reverse dependencies now warn on usage: > % perl -we 'use Path::Dispatcher' > Any::Moose is deprecated. Please use Moo instead at /usr/share/perl5/Path/Dispatcher.pm line 2. Thanks for bringing this up. > This change therefore triggered a dozen autopkgtest regressions [2]. More > may still be upcoming; I'm not sure what the re-test scheduling logic > on ci.debian.net currently is. Also, our autopkgtest coverage is "only" > at 81%, so there may be affected packages that aren't caught by these > checks. (It looks like libpath-dispatcher-perl is one of these.) % reverse-depends libany-moose-perl Reverse-Depends =============== * alice * libanyevent-gearman-perl * libapp-perlrdf-command-query-perl * libbot-training-perl * libconfig-jfdi-perl * libdata-amf-perl * libmethod-signatures-perl * libmousex-types-perl * libnet-google-code-perl * libnet-jifty-perl * libnet-trac-perl * libpath-dispatcher-declarative-perl * libpath-dispatcher-perl * libprophet-perl * librdf-crypt-perl * librdf-helper-properties-perl * libterm-editoredit-perl * libtest-cukes-perl * libtext-clip-perl * libwebservice-solr-perl * libwww-nicovideo-download-perl * openpgp-applet > I'm wondering what (if anything) we should do about this, mainly for > stretch at this point in the release cycle. Do we want to release with > these packages issuing warnings on usage, or should we look at either > fixing/squelching the warnings somehow or even removing the packages > from Debian? Leaving the warnings looks a bit unattractive; removing the rdeps is a bit drastic, OTOH this might be a good trigger to clean up a bit. But this needs work, and my hunch is that we won't get rid of all of them for one reason or another. Just commenting out the deprecation warning in Any::Moose would be easy, although it feels a bit cheap. But maybe there's an argument to be made for it as the target audience for the warning is not the average user of some automatically installed Debian package but the authors of the rdeps? Not sure what's best ... Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Leonard Cohen: If I Didn't Have Your Love
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