Bug#580034: perl: module deprecations in 5.12.0

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:04:09PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> Now that libclass-isa-perl, libswitch-perl, libpod-plainer-perl are
> in unstable, we should let affected maintainers know. I'll send a
> dd-list of this, with an explanation of the issue, to debian-devel
> shortly. I think we're still working on the assumption that we'd like
> to get Perl 5.12 into squeeze?

I think it's a bit early for such an announcement.

5.12 in squeeze is up to the release team, but even if it does make it,
there's no real hurry to get all those dependencies added. The only
harm is the warnings in build logs [1]; they won't show up in normal
use because perl Recommends the separate packages.

The dependencies are really needed for 5.14, so we've got the whole
next release cycle to add them.

OTOH adding the dependencies now is sort of harmful if we end up with
5.10 in squeeze: we then have the code duplication for no benefit. I'm
almost inclined to file RC bugs on the three packages to keep them out
of squeeze without 5.12.

[1] there's one exception: sd actually fails to build because of the
    warning, but it's the only one I've encountered

Hope this makes sense, let me know if I'm missing something.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org