On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:51:32 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > Are there plans to remove the package from Perl core again now that it > > has been deprecated? Seems like bad timing. > It is stil there in perl v5.15.6, but I think that cpanminus (the only > reverse dep as of now) will be already updated by the time perl v5.16 comes > out (the problem has been already reported upstream by Salvatore), so it > shouldn't be a problem if it gets removed.
Ack. > Btw, cpanminus already Depends on > perl (>= 5.14) | libversion-requirements-perl > So it should be possible to remove libversion-requirements-perl now, right? Yup, but that means an unconditional dependency on perl 5.14. I'm not sure if we want this? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Gloria Gaynor: I Am What I Am (Gay Pride Mix)
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