Bug#629472: Handle deprecated modules in 5.12 and 5.14
Dominic Hargreaves
dom at earth.li
Wed Jun 6 18:21:34 UTC 2012
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:25:57PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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
And we're now well on the way to completing this. All we now need to do
is add Breaks on any modules which get released with wheezy whilst
still appearing on this list.
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