Bug#580034: perl: module deprecations in 5.12.0

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:57:23PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 11:52:21AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>  
> > I think I prefer B - it should make the transition less painful in the
> > long run.
> 
> That one is also fine by me.
> 
> > We should also try and file bugs against packages using these modules,
> > if we can, once the separate packages are available.
> 
> Grep results so far on my rebuild logs of 1800 or so packages show
> nothing for Shell and Pod::Plainer, and just
> 
> Switch
>  libhtml-mason-perl_1.44-1
> 
> Class::ISA
>  libcgi-application-extra-plugin-bundle-perl_0.1
>  libcgi-application-perl_4.31-1
>  libclass-insideout-perl_1.10-1
>  libclass-meta-perl_0.63-1
>  libclass-virtual-perl_0.06-2
>  libdata-treedumper-perl_0.37-1
>  libemail-abstract-perl_3.001-1
>  libmasonx-interp-withcallbacks-perl_1.18-1
>  libparams-callbackrequest-perl_1.19-1
>  libtemplate-declare-perl_0.43-1
>  
> so this doesn't look like a huge issue.

Indeed. Instinct tells me we shouldn't bother packaging Shell or
Pod::Plainer, and possibly not Switch either (a quick inspection reveals
that it's only used by a test suite which will skip the test if it's
not loadable).

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