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

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

How often do new (packaged) modules get merged in to the core? On the
assumption that it's not a hugely regular occurrence, I'd be minded to
suggest maintaining a static copy, as we do with the doc-base section
list.

Adam