Bug#702096: perl: Module deprecations in 5.18

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:13:02AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:12:40PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 05:33:55PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > > This is a placeholder/reminder, as 5.18 isn't out yet.
> > > There are a number of deprecations coming up, listed at
> 
> > As of 5.17.11, the full list seems to be
> 
> I played a little with codesearch.debian.net; results below.
>  
> > Archive-Extract
> 
> Needed by at least libalien-sdl-perl and libmodule-extract-perl.
> 
> > B-Lint
> 
> Probably not used in other packages.
> 
> > CPANPLUS-Dist-Build
> 
> Used by CPANPLUS.
> 
> > CPANPLUS
> 
> Possibly used by Module::Install (and embedded versions of it?)

Packaged before, and then removed back in 2005 (RoQA):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292754

However this was mainly because it was orphaned. I don't *think*
it would go against the spirit of that removal to reintroduce it.

> > File-CheckTree
> 
> Probably not used in other packages.
> 
> > Log-Message-Simple
> 
> Used by Term-UI 
> 
> > Log-Message
> 
> Used by CPANPLUS, Log-Message-Simple and Term-UI.
> 
> > Module-Pluggable
> 
> Used by CPANPLUS, cipux, libcatalyst-perl, jifty? etc.
> 
> > Object-Accessor
> 
> Used by CPANPLUS
> 
> > Pod-LaTeX
> 
> Used by cloog, liblatex-encode-perl, libtex-encode-perl
> 
> > Term-UI
> 
> Used by oar, libdist-zilla-perl.
> 
> > Text-Soundex
> 
> Used by libnet-ldap-perl, libsql-statement-perl, libmodule-info-perl?,
> libgedcom-perl?
> 
> > We probably need to package all of these separately. If jessie is going
> > to release with Perl 5.18, adding them as recommendations to the perl
> > package should be enough. If we release with something later we probably
> > need real dependencies for one release cycle.
> 
> According to the above, we could possibly drop B-Lint and File-CheckTree
> if we assume that user code doesn't need them. Not sure how probable
> that is. I'm somewhat inclined to lean on the safe side and package
> those as well.

Yes, that's roughly what we decided for the perl 5.14 deprecations IIRC.

Dominic.

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