Re: Bug#747628: perl: module deprecations / removals in 5.20
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:45:44PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Niko Tyni, 17.05.2014 14:17:19 +0300 |=-
> > 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.
>
> On one hand, people who do not install Recommends will have breakage.
> On the other, I don't see an easy way to avoid that, unless perl
> Depends on the deprecated modules forever, which I guess is not
> desirable.
I think we only need to be concerned about upgrades breaking by vanished
modules. That means one release cycle: once the separated packages are
pulled in once, they will stay on the system even when the perl package
drops the hard dependencies in the next upgrade.
So the Depends entries aren't needed forever, just for one release cycle.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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