Package: lintian Version: 1.24.4 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if lintian could warn about unnecessary versioned dependencies on packages provided by the perl core packages. It's quite easy to make mistakes like #497170, and often perfectly valid dependencies turn stale with updates to the Perl core, as in #497263.
Alternate dependencies listing the core package first like perl-modules (>= 5.10) | libfile-temp-perl (>= 0.17) are of course perfectly OK and ease backporting, so they need to be taken into account. The implementation could use corelist(1) and/or Module::Corelist to check if the version in the dependency is already in the core. I think just transforming libfoo-bar-perl to Foo::Bar would catch most issues, and the rest (like podlators-perl -> Pod::Man) could be special cased. A good test case is the libmodule-build-perl package, which is currently pulled in by a dozen or so outdated versioned build-dependencies. I'll probably take a shot at a patch myself when I find the time, but feel free to do it first :) Ideas welcome. -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
