Hi Makholm On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:48:59PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > > * Package name : libswitch-perl > > Version : 2.16 > > Upstream Author : Damian Conway <damian@conway.org> > > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Switch/ > > * License : Perl > > Programming Lang: Perl > > Description : A switch statement for Perl > > > > The Switch.pm module implements a generalized case mechanism that covers many > > possible combinations of switch and case values. > > Is there a sane reason for wanting to include this? > > For perl 5.10 and later you have the given/when statement which does > the same in a much less fragile way. Please don't write new code using > Switch.pm module. > > At least add a big warning in the description that this is a obsolete > module and using given/when with perl 5.10 is very much prefered. I think the rationale about packaging this separately is that one which is discussed by Nico Tyni in http://bugs.debian.org/580034 Bests Salvatore
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