On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:16:34 +0100, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: [directing this to debian-perl@l.d.o since it's not directly related to the original bug] > >>>* Re "< 5.9.5": if I understand the description correctly, this is > >>>correct. mro is in perl core since v5.9.5, and this MRO::Compat > >>>module is for perls before 5.9.5. > >>>(Which leads to the question if/why we still need this package.) > >>apt-cache rdepends libmro-compat-perl > >Right, my question was more _why_ those reverse dependencies still > >exist :) > >But I guess these are upstream requirements, so meh ... > To possibly get rid of libmro-compat-perl: > Somebody (me) would have to determine whether the (sid/wheezy) > rdepends really still need this package? > And do a mass bug filing afterward? Salvatore grepped a bit yesterday, and there are still quite a few modules with "use MRO::Compat;". Getting this changed upstream is rather unlikely, since many CPAN authors want to support older perl versions, and I doubt it's worth the effort to carry patches in Debian for all of them ... Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Didier Squiban: Ar Baradoz
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