Bug#629472: Handle deprecated modules in 5.12 and 5.14

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:19:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > I don't think it is. If we're going to care about partial upgrades
> > at all, we may as well make them work robustly, and turn those 
> > relationships into Depends. I'm happy to do that for wheezy.
> > Thanks for the reminder about that bug; the list of affected packages
> > there is bigger than the list I've filed bugs for based on my
> > rebuild logs. I've added a task to the wiki to check these again and
> > file bugs where needed.
> 
> Done (mainly for Switch). Haven't done this for Shell since this won't
> be removed until 5.16. They should all be tagged perl-5.14-transition.
> 
> Any objections to make raising the strength of the perl-modules
> relationship to libswitch-perl and libclass-isa-perl to Depends for
> 5.14?
> 
> We'd need to make those packages Priority: standard before doing this.
> Note that this would just be for the wheezy cycle, and could be dropped
> afterwards.

I've now bumped the priority of libswitch-perl and libclass-isa-perl,
and pushed out the change in dependencies for the next 5.14 release.
 
> > It may be that we can leave libpod-plainer-perl at Recommends of
> > course (or for that matter drop it down to Suggests). 
> 
> Based on your analysis, there is no software in Debian using Pod::Plainer.
> This suggests that the module is little-enough used that we could drop
> the dependency on this one down to Suggests. Any objections?

I've also done this.

> > Yet to analyze: Devel::Dprof and Perl4::CoreLibs. Assuming that wheezy
> > releases with 5.14 and not 5.16, if we catch all uses of these before
> > wheezy releases, we won't need to add Depends in wheezy+1 (but this
> > assumption may turn out to be invalid).

This is looking very likely now, which is even more reason to do this
analysis. I'll try and get this done soon.

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