Re: libjcode-pm-perl: Debian package should be named 'libjcode-perl'
On Wednesday, 11 June 2025 08:40:40 Central European Summer Time Andreas Tille
wrote:
> I wonder if this is a good idea. There is another package named
> libjcode-perl[1] which is maintained by the same author and which
> is definitely different from this package.
libjcode-perl is a perl 4 library which is superseded by libjcode-pm-perl for
perl 5.
I guess that -pm- was added to distinguish between the perl 4 and perl 5
libraries.
We may want to drop libjcode-perl as it has not reverse dependencies and perl
4 has not been shipped by Debian for quite a while.
Then, we may rename libjcode-pm-perl to the old name. I not clear on the
process involved to avoid confusion with the old libjcode-perl package.
The question is: is this rename worth the trouble ?
HTH
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