Bug#568749: lintian: don't recommend depending on perl-modules

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

As discussed in #552052, we now consider perl-modules an internal
implementation detail of the perl source package and discourage direct
dependencies on it.

This patch makes lintian no longer recommend a perl-modules dependency
for dual-lived modules.

I'm working on a lintian warning about existing dependencies, but
will submit that as a separate bug.

Thanks for your work on lintian,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org

>From 9eaf219f0173b3265df33b7c5f1d0787189f2a03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:00:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't recommend a direct dependency on perl-modules, use perl instead.

As discussed in #552052, perl-modules is now considered an internal
implementation detail of the perl source package and direct dependencies
on it are discouraged.
---
 checks/fields.desc |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc
index 663e66c..d870d1d 100644
--- a/checks/fields.desc
+++ b/checks/fields.desc
@@ -904,10 +904,10 @@ Info: This package declares an unnecessary versioned dependency
  .
  The recommended way to express the dependency without needless
  complications on backporting packages is to use alternative dependencies.
- The Perl core package should be the preferred alternative and the
+ The perl package should be the preferred alternative and the
  versioned dependency a secondary one.
  .
- Example: perl-modules (&gt;= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (&gt;= 0.26)
+ Example: perl (&gt;= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (&gt;= 0.26)
 Ref: policy 7.5
 
 Tag: package-superseded-by-perl
@@ -925,10 +925,10 @@ Info: This package is also provided by one of the Perl core packages
  .
  The recommended way to express the dependency without needless
  complications on backporting packages is to use alternative dependencies.
- The Perl core package should be the preferred alternative and the
+ The perl package should be the preferred alternative and the
  versioned dependency a secondary one.
  .
- Example: perl-modules (&gt;= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (&gt;= 0.26)
+ Example: perl (&gt;= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (&gt;= 0.26)
 Ref: policy 7.5
 
 Tag: vcs-field-uses-not-recommended-uri-format
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