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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 09:31:48PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

Right. And as it turns out I've already filed bugs for some of
these, eg

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711680

and will file some more based on my latest rebuild logs.