Bug#580034: perl: module deprecations in 5.12.0

[Dominic Hargreaves]

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.
> 
> Switch
> 	calamaris
> 	fts
> 	gbackground
> 	gcstar
> 	gosa
> 	gosa-perl
> 	gpsdrive
> 	kdesdk
> 	libdata-alias-perl
> 	libdata-format-html-perl
> 	libfinance-bank-ie-permanenttsb-perl
> 	libgnome2-vfs-perl # example
> 	libhtml-mason-perl
> 	nordugrid-arc-nox
> 	openoffice.org
> 	pacpl
> 	xmltv
> 	xtlf
> Shell
> 	bioperl # example
> 	boson-data
> 	kdelibs
> 	ksensors
> 	libnet-dns-zone-parser-perl
> 	libnet-upnp-perl # example
> 	libqt-perl
> 	pbnj
> 	quiteinsanegimpplugin
> 	regina-normal
> 	vdradmin-am
> Pod::Plainer
> Class::ISA
> 	grid-packaging-tools
> 	libcgi-application-perl
> 	libclass-insideout-perl
> 	libclass-meta-perl
> 	libclass-virtual-perl
> 	libdata-treedumper-perl
> 	libemail-abstract-perl
> 	libmasonx-interp-withcallbacks-perl
> 	libparams-callbackrequest-perl
> 	libtemplate-declare-perl

Now that libclass-isa-perl, libswitch-perl, libpod-plainer-perl are
in unstable, we should let affected maintainers know. I'll send a
dd-list of this, with an explanation of the issue, to debian-devel
shortly. I think we're still working on the assumption that we'd like
to get Perl 5.12 into squeeze?

Dominic.

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