Bug#580034: perl: module deprecations in 5.12.0

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:50:39PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

Ah, yes, of course. Sorry for the noise :)

Filing the RC bugs would be worthwhile, as long as we have a sure way
of remembering to close them at the right point. I guess perl 5.12
itself would be kept out of testing because of such RC bugs since it
recommends them.

Dominic.

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