Bug#636994: lintian: add check for deprecated perl libraries

2011-08-20 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 09:31:41AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Thanks for the patch and sorry if it has been difficult to get an > overview of how the whole machinery. :) Hi, I've attached a new patch, and will comment point by point below. > I got two issues with the patch; first off, the r

Bug#636994: lintian: add check for deprecated perl libraries

2011-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-14 18:58, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > tags 636994 +patch > thanks > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: >> [...] > > Okay, I had a stab at implementing this. It involved a lot of guesswork > and cargo-culting, but it appears to work. Patch attached. Pl

Bug#629472: Bug#636994: lintian: add check for deprecated perl libraries (was: #629472)

2011-08-14 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Thanks for the response; I think you've convinced me that this would > be the best approach, at least to start with. > > You're correct that build-time deps will be caught by rebuilds, once > the modules get removed. Ideally in

Bug#636994: lintian: add check for deprecated perl libraries (was: #629472)

2011-08-14 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
tags 636994 +patch thanks On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Thanks for the response; I think you've convinced me that this would > be the best approach, at least to start with. > > You're correct that build-time deps will be caught by rebuilds, once > the modul

Bug#636994: lintian: add check for deprecated perl libraries (was: #629472)

2011-08-07 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 04:35:59PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2011-08-07 15:33, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > 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