Bug#682730: cme: reduces libclass-isa-perl | perl (<< 5.10.1-13) to perl

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Dominique

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53:24AM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Le Wednesday 25 July 2012 08:59:14, Salvatore Bonaccorso a écrit :
> > libclass-isa-perl | perl (<< 5.10.1-13)
> > 
> > get's reduced to perl. But libclass-isa-perl is not real-dual lived
> > module:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Previously Class::ISA was in Perl core:
> > 
> > Class::ISA was first released with perl v5.7.3 and removed from v5.13.1
> > 
> > In unstable, only libclass-isa-perl has furthermore Class/ISA.pm.
> 
> Ack.
> 
> 
> I'm considering either:
> - leave dependencies with '<<' or '<=' as is
> - handle module that are removed from corelist and suggest a correct 
> dependency field.
> 
> Since the latter is not that obvious, I just wonder if the effort is worth the 
> trouble ...

Yes agree the latter is furthermore maybe too seldom to try to
implement such a check.

I would say let's go for the first one if feasible.

Regards,
Salvatore
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