the merge of 'perl-modules' to 'perl' is planned

Ryan Niebur ryanryan52 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 00:50:54 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:59:48PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> [Cc debian-perl at l.d.o as it wasn't added on the first list]
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hello members of Debian Perl Group,
> >
> > [please keep CC on replies if any]
> >
> > The binary package 'perl-modules' is planned to be merged into 'perl' binary
> > package in the near future, firstly leaving 'perl-modules' as an empty package
> > (dependent on 'perl') to not make the mass breakage in a shot. However, it
> Wow, that's interesting. Thanks for letting us all know, before major
> breakage :)
> > would be good to remove the 'perl-modules' entirely before Squeeze, or at
> > least leave as minimum as possible perl modules (build)-depending on
> > 'perl-modules'. Considering the big number of Perl modules are maintained
> Consequently, I would recommend adding a lintian check to notify
> people of this issue. It should warn people that perl-modules is on
> its way out. I don't have the time to look into this right now, but
> unless someone else does so, I could consider whipping something up.

it just needs to be added to the data/fields/obsolete-packages file in
lintian's source. no need to make a new check for this, just make a BR
against lintian and the lintian maintainers will probably add it to
this list.

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