Bug#721393: perl-modules: please describe which recommended/suggested packages are used for what

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:55:29PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> This is mostly an implementation detail that users of the package
> shouldn't have to worry about too much. Packages should still be
> updated to depend on the separate modules. I half thought that we already
> had a lintian check warning of these, but we only have one for the
> perl4 libraries which were deprecated in the previous cycle. I think
> we must have decided that it wasn't necessary for the other types of
> deprecations, but I'm not sure why.

I don't recall such a decision, but the impact does seem quite limited
according to the codesearch.debian.net results in #702096.

I think the %deprecate::DEBIAN_PACKAGES hash we added with
debian/patches/debian/deprecate-with-apt.diff could be used to implement
a generic lintian check that doesn't hardcode the list of deprecated
modules. Not sure if we want to commit to that interface though.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org