Bug#702096: Bug#711644: libcolor-library-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: uses modules deprecated in 5.18

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Tue Jun 11 18:34:10 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:38:07PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 06:43:34PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > Anyway: yes, I think we should Break them and patch debian/t/control.t
> > accordingly.
> > 
> > This suggests that we should make the test use the list of
> > deprecated packages in lib/deprecate.pm so that we don't
> > have to maintain two separate lists. Maybe make
> > %DEBIAN_PACKAGES a package variable and then access the list
> > via something like
> >  require deprecate; my @packages = %deprecate::DEBIAN_PACKAGES
> 
> Implementation pushed to the ntyni/debian-5.18 branch; eyeballs
> welcome.

Hi Niko,

This looks good, thanks! Would you like me to do an upload, or will
you take care of that? (It'd be good to do this promptly to avoid
any more confusion along the lines of that on libcolor-library-perl).

Thanks,
Dominic.

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