Bug#653868: Proposed-RM: libversion-requirements-perl -- RoM: deprecated, superseded

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 06:41:53PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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?

I have noticed that cpanminus does not really use part of its Depends (they
were bundled upstream because of other modules, but since we dis-bundled
them they are not needed) among which Version::Requirements. I have removed 
them now.

Cheers

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