Re: Bug#702096: perl: Module deprecations in 5.18
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:13:02AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:12:40PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > We probably need to package all of these separately. If jessie is going
> > > to release with Perl 5.18, adding them as recommendations to the perl
> > > package should be enough. If we release with something later we probably
> > > need real dependencies for one release cycle.
> >
> > According to the above, we could possibly drop B-Lint and File-CheckTree
> > if we assume that user code doesn't need them. Not sure how probable
> > that is. I'm somewhat inclined to lean on the safe side and package
> > those as well.
>
> Yes, that's roughly what we decided for the perl 5.14 deprecations IIRC.
I've now added ITPs for all of those (sorry about the weird linewrapping
isssues!) and marked them as blocking this bug.
I would be pleased to have some assistance in packaging these as part of
the Debian Perl group. If you do so please claim the package by setting
the owner of the ITP bug to you.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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