Bug#653868: Proposed-RM: libversion-requirements-perl -- RoM: deprecated, superseded

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 06:59:10PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> >From upstream Changes:
>> 
>>           DEPRECATED DEPRECATED DEPRECATED DEPRECATED
>>           Version::Requirements is now DEPRECATED
>>           Use CPAN::Meta::Requirements, which is a drop-in replacement.
>> 
[...]
>> After they are either fixed upstream or patched in Debian, we can RM
>> libversion-requirements-perl.
>
> Since Version::Requirements is also in Perl core (since 5.13.10) this might
> be easier. It would just make backporting those packages a little harder
> (they would need the depends to be re-added in order to be backported), and
> would be only a temporary fix until they get updated.

We can have perl (>= 5.14) | libversion-requirements-perl in the
dependencies if we want to make backports easy.

Are there plans to remove the package from Perl core again now that it
has been deprecated?  Seems like bad timing.

Regards,
Ansgar