On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 09:31:48PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > 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.
Right. And as it turns out I've already filed bugs for some of these, eg http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711680 and will file some more based on my latest rebuild logs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
