Bug#702096: Bug#711644: libcolor-library-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: uses modules deprecated in 5.18

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Mon Jun 10 20:38:07 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 06:43:34PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Anyway: yes, I think we should Break them and patch debian/t/control.t
> accordingly.
> 
> This suggests that we should make the test use the list of
> deprecated packages in lib/deprecate.pm so that we don't
> have to maintain two separate lists. Maybe make
> %DEBIAN_PACKAGES a package variable and then access the list
> via something like
>  require deprecate; my @packages = %deprecate::DEBIAN_PACKAGES

Implementation pushed to the ntyni/debian-5.18 branch; eyeballs
welcome.
-- 
Niko




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