[CCing lintian maintainers in case they offer any relevant advice] On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:13:54PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > 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). > > This is looking very likely now, which is even more reason to do this > analysis. I'll try and get this done soon. I've made a start on this. I only found one package which uses Devel::DProf (libapache-db-perl) and filed a bug for that (#636952). The perl 4 libraries are more interesting; there are 127 packages which appear to have files which use one or more of them. In many cases it's likely that the files which use them either aren't installed, or aren't used if they are. It's also possible that there are a couple of false positives there, where there are private copies of the files which are being used directly. I suppose that this is too many packages to be filing bugs on, so maybe the best way forward will be to get a check added to lintian. However, I'm somewhat concerned that it will prove difficult to track progress based on lintian.debian.org (it's more work for a maintainer to add a lintian override than close a bug saying "confirmed that we aren't really using these libraries") so in a way I would like to go ahead with the mass bugfiling. I'm also concerned that it will be difficult to get an accurate representation of the issue with lintian; I generated my list of packages by grepping source packages for the names of the libraries, then manually processed the list stripping out lots of noise. It's possible one could come up with a definitive pattern of ways in which the libraries could be loaded from a perl script (do/require/use, single or double quotation marks, ..?), but possibly tricky. Any comments or suggestions welcomed. Cheers, Dominic. -- 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
