Proposed mass bug-filing format for deprecated package use

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:03:40AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Maybe explain that perl (>= 5.10.1-13, << 5.12.0) Provides:
> libclass-isa-perl and the rest so it's a no-op on squeeze and current sid?

Yup. Will do.

> > Please depend/build-depend as appropriate on
> > 
> > libclass-isa-perl | perl (<< 5.12.0)
> 
> It would be good to verify first with one package that this works properly
> on the buildds. I expect it should, but ever since #494677 I've been wary
> of such constructs.

Good point. I've checked with libcgi-application-perl and everything
seems okay on the sbuilds I have for unstable and experimental.

> Also, I'm not sure if that should read 
>  libclass-isa-perl | perl (<< 5.10.1-13)
> I suspect that doesn't matter.

Yes, I agree; it's probably marginally more correct to use what you
suggested so I will put that in the bug reports.

We now have a list of 5.14 transition bugs :)
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.14-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org>

Dominic.

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