Bug#629472: Handle deprecated modules in 5.12 and 5.14

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Sun Sep 18 17:25:57 UTC 2011


On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 02:33:02PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> The perl 4 libraries are more interesting; there are 127 packages
> which appear to have files which use one or more of them. In many cases
> it's likely that the files which use them either aren't installed, or
> aren't used if they are. It's also possible that there are a couple of
> false positives there, where there are private copies of the files
> which are being used directly.

lintian in unstable adds the lintian tags (warnings):
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep.html
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/perl-module-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep.html

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