Re: Bug#627114: ITP: libdevel-dprof-perl -- a deprecated Perl code profier

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:42:26PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> (17/05/2011):
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
> > 
> > * Package name    : libdevel-dprof-perl
> >   Version         : 20110228.00
> >   Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
> > * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-DProf/
> > * License         : Perl
> >   Programming Lang: Perl
> >   Description     : a deprecated Perl code profier
> 
> profiler.

Thanks.

> > Devel::DProf is deprecated. It is recommended that you install and
> > use Devel::NYTProf (in the package libdevel-nytprof-perl) instead,
> > as it offers significantly improved profiling and reporting.
> 
> Why packaging it at all then?

It's currently part of the core perl distribution, but that packaging
of it has been deprecated in 5.14 and will be removed in 5.16. As per
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580034> we plan to
patch the built-in warnings which will recommend installing from CPAN
instead with warnings suggesting the separate pacakge, to produce
a smooth transition (and Recommend/Depend/Suggest on it as appropriate
based on analysis of what will break during the upgrade).

Dominic.

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