Proposed mass bug-filing/NMUing: perl 4 libraries
I would like to try and ensure that wheezy releases without any packages
which use the deprecated perl 4 libraries without depending on the
separate libperl4-corelibs-perl package.
You can see more details, and a list of packages, at
<http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/Transitions/Perl4CoreLibs>
and
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629472>
I would like to file bugs against these packages, together with patches
if possible, to fix the issues (I'm hoping that other members of the
Debian Perl group might be able to help out with this, too).
Severity: normal seems appropriate, at least initially.
The ideal route is to have the applications switch to the more modern
equivalents of the libraries (which are all listed on the wiki page) but
the safe (and thus NMU-based) method will be, I think, to just add a
dependency on libperl4-corelibs-perl; it's much better to get the
dependency added, if if you plan to move away from the libraries later.
Note that programs using these libraries without libperl4-corelibs-perl
should already be producing warnings when run.
Does this bug-filing and possible NMUing sound reasonable?
I've included a dd-list of packages (excluding those where the issue
only exists in an example) below.
Thanks,
Dominic.
Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
mgetty
Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
ssake (U)
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
libcgi-simple-perl (U)
Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>
cfengine2
Aurelien Labrosse <aurelien.labrosse@free.fr>
dspam (U)
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
amanda
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org>
autoconf2.13
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
pari
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
ssake (U)
Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org>
dspam (U)
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
info2man
Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
perlindex (U)
Debian DSPAM Maintainers <pkg-dspam-misc@lists.alioth.debian.org>
dspam
Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
ssake
Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
libcgi-simple-perl
perlindex
Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
mgp
wu-ftpd
Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
texlive-base
Debian Vim Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
vim
Deepak Tripathi <apenguinlinux@gmail.com>
libperlmenu-perl
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
texlive-base (U)
gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
libcgi-simple-perl (U)
perlindex (U)
Guillaume Delacour <gui@iroqwa.org>
flowscan
Ignace Mouzannar <mouzannar@gmail.com>
perlindex (U)
James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
vim (U)
Jesus Climent <mooch@debian.org>
dspam (U)
Jose Luis Rivas <ghostbar@debian.org>
libcgi-simple-perl (U)
Julien Valroff <julien@debian.org>
dspam (U)
Julián Moreno Patiño <darkjunix@gmail.com>
cvs2html
Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
dspam (U)
Leo Costela <costela@debian.org>
tedia2sql
Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez@debian.org>
adzapper
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
dist
Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
ifmail
inn
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org>
mgetty (U)
Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>
dspam (U)
Michael Ablassmeier <abi@debian.org>
imageindex
Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
libcgi-simple-perl (U)
Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>
texlive-base (U)
Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
wwwstat
Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
gri
Rudolf Weber <rudolf@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de>
dspam (U)
Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org>
libcgi-simple-perl (U)
Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org>
cgvg
Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
nas
Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org>
skktools
Thibaut GRIDEL <tgridel@free.fr>
giflib
Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
cvs
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