Bug#653868: Proposed-RM: libversion-requirements-perl -- RoM: deprecated, superseded

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:21:15PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It is stil there in perl v5.15.6

Just checked in git, according to perldelta [0], it will be removed in v5.17.0.

Cheers

[0] http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/36a6a1..ef337e:/pod/perldelta.pod

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