Bug#653868: Proposed-RM: libversion-requirements-perl -- RoM: deprecated, superseded

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:51:32 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:

> > Are there plans to remove the package from Perl core again now that it
> > has been deprecated?  Seems like bad timing.
> It is stil there in perl v5.15.6, but I think that cpanminus (the only 
> reverse dep as of now) will be already updated by the time perl v5.16 comes
> out (the problem has been already reported upstream by Salvatore), so it
> shouldn't be a problem if it gets removed.

Ack.
 
> Btw, cpanminus already Depends on
>   perl (>= 5.14) | libversion-requirements-perl
> So it should be possible to remove libversion-requirements-perl now, right?

Yup, but that means an unconditional dependency on perl 5.14. I'm not
sure if we want this?


Cheers,
gregor
 
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