Re: libtime-modules-perl
Hi,
TL;DR: Seconded.
Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > After a bit of investigation it appears the last release of Time-Modules
> > was 2013.0912, but that is where it get's interesting... whilst trying
> > to find the package on metacpan I've discovered that the package has
> > been renamed to Time-ParseDate [0] starting with release 2013.0916
>
> > [0] https://metacpan.org/release/Time-ParseDate
>
> Good catch.
Indeed.
> > I can see two options for updating the package:
> > a) Keep the same in Debian (doesn't seem user friendly)
> > b) We start again by packaging the new upstream version and providing
> > a transitional package which depends on the new package.
>
> certainly b).
Seconded.
> Or perhaps a light version of it, where only the source/binary
> package is renamed and a dummy transitional binary package named
> libtime-modules-perl is kept until Jessie is released.
I don't see the difference to b). :-)
Regards, Axel
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