Re: Bug#747628: perl: module deprecations / removals in 5.20
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:51:45AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> I'm though still a little bit confused by the word "removal" in the
> following sentence:
>
> > > > A full list of relevant removals is
> > > >
> > > > libarchive-extract-perl
> > > > libb-lint-perl
> > > > libcpanplus-perl
> > > > libfile-checktree-perl
> > > > liblog-message-perl
> > > > libmodule-pluggable-perl
> > > > libobject-accessor-perl
> > > > libpod-latex-perl
> > > > libterm-ui-perl
> > > > libtext-soundex-perl
>
> >From the context I suspect that this means "have been removed from
> core" and not "will be removed from the archive", but I'm not really
> confident. Can you confirm that suspection?
Confirmed. Sorry about the confusion.
These are the Perl core modules that were deprecated in 5.18 and removed
from the core in 5.20. Most of the above packages were created for the
5.18 transition. The question is if the perl 5.20 package need to Depend
on them or if a Recommends entry is enough.
--
Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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