On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:55:29PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > This is mostly an implementation detail that users of the package > shouldn't have to worry about too much. Packages should still be > updated to depend on the separate modules. I half thought that we already > had a lintian check warning of these, but we only have one for the > perl4 libraries which were deprecated in the previous cycle. I think > we must have decided that it wasn't necessary for the other types of > deprecations, but I'm not sure why.
I don't recall such a decision, but the impact does seem quite limited according to the codesearch.debian.net results in #702096. I think the %deprecate::DEBIAN_PACKAGES hash we added with debian/patches/debian/deprecate-with-apt.diff could be used to implement a generic lintian check that doesn't hardcode the list of deprecated modules. Not sure if we want to commit to that interface though. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
