Bug#696983: Bug#687526: Bug#696983: slbackup: cronjob warn about obsolete getopts.pl dependency

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 09:41 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2013-01-08 01:14, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > I am happy to follow any of your suggestions, esp. because I would call
> > my self a still-learning-Perl-person. The big question is, if a change
> > like you propose might make a difference for the transition of an
> > adapted-like-you-suggest package to wheezy. If there is a yes to that
> > question, I will put fixing the package on prio-A.
> > 
> Personally, I would flat out reject the changes as long as they ignore
> errors[1].  So that sense, I suppose it will make a difference.
>   Mind you, even with the proper error handling I am not sure I would
> unblock the package.  Partly because I am not confident with particular
> things the script is doing and partly because of Julien's comment on the
> changes being invasive.

There doesn't seem to have been a further upload, and the changes are
definitely too invasive this close to the release, so I'm afraid we're
going to have to decline this request at this point.

Regards,

Adam