Bug#552052: lintian: add perl-modules to list of obsolete packages

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:49:19 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> In fact, based on Don's concerns and the discussion on debian-devel [1]
> it looks like we're going to back away from the perl+perl-modules merge.

Ok.
 
> However, I think there is a point in discouraging direct dependencies
> on perl-modules. [..]
> Therefore I think that the perl/perl-modules split should be considered
> an internal implementation detail of the perl source package, and other
> packages should only depend on perl (or some specified versions of
> perl-base, in exceptional circumstances.)

Makes sense to me.
 
> The first steps to this would be just a change to the perl-modules
> long description and a lintian warning triggering on the 150 or so
> packages currently (build-)depending on perl-modules. 

The ones maintained by the perl group are already changed (at least
in svn), and dh-make-perl also just uses "perl" already.

> Changing 150 packages won't happen overnight but there's no particular
> hurry with it and I think the remaining dependencies could be filed
> at some point as minor bugs.

Ack.
 

Cheers,
gregor
 
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