Bug#580056: Bug#580034: perl: module deprecations in 5.12.0
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:36:48PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 12:26:43PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>
> > Class::ISA will be removed from the Perl core distribution in the next major release. Please install it from CPAN. It is being used at -e, line 1.
>
> > The modules being deprecated from the core are (from perl5120delta.pod):
> >
> > Class::ISA
> > Pod::Plainer
> > Shell
> > Switch
>
> Hm, I now noticed that Shell doesn't actually display the deprecation
> warning although it's documented to do so in pod/perl5120delta.pod.
>
> This seems unintentional; I've just notified upstream. We'll see if it means
> the Shell deprecation must be delayed by one upstream release or not. Not
> sure if that necessarily affects what we do.
Upstream is going to keep Shell around for 5.14 and (presumably) remove
it in 5.16 because of this issue. I suppose we don't therefore need a
separate libshell-perl for now.
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160155.html
Dominic, I think we should ask ftpmaster to reject libshell-perl from
NEW. Do you agree?
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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