Source: perl Severity: wishlist I'm making this a bug to make sure it doesn't drop off the radar, since it's going to take a bit of monitoring and occasional action.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:19:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 02:48:01PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > That still leaves the modules deprecated in 5.12 (Class::ISA, > > Pod::Plainer, and Switch.) > > > > Any packages in squeeze using those will break if perl is upgraded to > > 5.14 first, unless we leave a dependency in place for one release cycle. > > > > Reviewing #580034, there are probably about 30-40 such packages. They > > would make a rather long Breaks: list. > > > > Not sure if just Recommending the separate packages is enough to > > remove the need for Breaks: entries. > > I don't think it is. If we're going to care about partial upgrades > at all, we may as well make them work robustly, and turn those > relationships into Depends. I'm happy to do that for wheezy. > Thanks for the reminder about that bug; the list of affected packages > there is bigger than the list I've filed bugs for based on my > rebuild logs. I've added a task to the wiki to check these again and > file bugs where needed. Done (mainly for Switch). Haven't done this for Shell since this won't be removed until 5.16. They should all be tagged perl-5.14-transition. Any objections to make raising the strength of the perl-modules relationship to libswitch-perl and libclass-isa-perl to Depends for 5.14? We'd need to make those packages Priority: standard before doing this. Note that this would just be for the wheezy cycle, and could be dropped afterwards. > It may be that we can leave libpod-plainer-perl at Recommends of > course (or for that matter drop it down to Suggests). Based on your analysis, there is no software in Debian using Pod::Plainer. This suggests that the module is little-enough used that we could drop the dependency on this one down to Suggests. Any objections? > Yet to analyze: Devel::Dprof and Perl4::CoreLibs. Assuming that wheezy > releases with 5.14 and not 5.16, if we catch all uses of these before > wheezy releases, we won't need to add Depends in wheezy+1 (but this > assumption may turn out to be invalid). -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
