Bug#695036: libmro-compat-perl still necessary?

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

>>> Thanks for your bug report.
>>>        
>> thank you very much for your fast response.
>>      
> You're welcome.
>    
It pleasant to see that somebody takes care - even on quite minor
problems.
>>> * Re "<  5.9.5": if I understand the description correctly, this is
>>> correct. mro is in perl core since v5.9.5, and this MRO::Compat
>>> module is for perls before 5.9.5.
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>>> (Which leads to the question if/why we still need this package.)
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>> apt-cache rdepends libmro-compat-perl
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> Right, my question was more _why_ those reverse dependencies still
> exist :)
> But I guess these are upstream requirements, so meh ...
>    
To possibly get rid of libmro-compat-perl:
Somebody (me) would have to determine whether the (sid/wheezy) rdepends 
really still need this package?
And do a mass bug filing afterward?

Cheers, Martin