Bug#497887: lintian: check for unnecessary versioned dependencies on Perl core modules

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:

> The implementation could use corelist(1) and/or Module::Corelist to
> check if the version in the dependency is already in the core. I think
> just transforming libfoo-bar-perl to Foo::Bar would catch most issues,
> and the rest (like podlators-perl -> Pod::Man) could be special cased.

One trick here will be that lintian.d.o runs on a stable system and hence
would have stable versions of those utilities unless we add newer versions
to a private library directory.  We can do that, of course, but it may be
worth considering whether we should generate some sort of static dump of
the data and update it periodically instead.  I'm not sure off-hand which
would be easier to maintain, or if there's some other, better way.

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