Bug#580034: perl: module deprecations in 5.12.0

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:54:52PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > It turns out the lintian lab is accessible at lintian.d.o but doesn't
> > have unpacked source packages.
> > 
> > So I did it myself and grepped through 3394 unpacked source packages
> > (those that build depend on perl, or produce binary packages that depend,
> > recommend, or suggest perl).
> > 
> > Results of grepping for "use module" and "require module" follow. I've put
> > the raw data available at
> >  http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/deprecated-modules.txt.gz
> > in case someone wants to conduct a more comprehensive search.
> > 
> > I had a quick look through these and removed a few false positives,
> > but there may still be some left.
> 
> [snip results]
> 
> > Preliminary conclusion: we're going to need at least three of the four
> > modules packaged, and I'm inclined to throw in Pod::Plainer as well
> > for the sake of completeness although nothing in Debian uses it.
> 
> Yep, makes sense.

All four are now in or on their way to NEW.

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