Bug#653868: Proposed-RM: libversion-requirements-perl -- RoM: deprecated, superseded

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:21:15PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio at gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 06:59:10PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> >> >From upstream Changes:
> >> 
> >>           DEPRECATED DEPRECATED DEPRECATED DEPRECATED
> >>           Version::Requirements is now DEPRECATED
> >>           Use CPAN::Meta::Requirements, which is a drop-in replacement.
> >> 
> [...]
> >> After they are either fixed upstream or patched in Debian, we can RM
> >> libversion-requirements-perl.
> >
> > Since Version::Requirements is also in Perl core (since 5.13.10) this might
> > be easier. It would just make backporting those packages a little harder
> > (they would need the depends to be re-added in order to be backported), and
> > would be only a temporary fix until they get updated.
> 
> We can have perl (>= 5.14) | libversion-requirements-perl in the
> dependencies if we want to make backports easy.
> 
> Are there plans to remove the package from Perl core again now that it
> has been deprecated?  Seems like bad timing.

It is stil there in perl v5.15.6, but I think that cpanminus (the only 
reverse dep as of now) will be already updated by the time perl v5.16 comes
out (the problem has been already reported upstream by Salvatore), so it
shouldn't be a problem if it gets removed.

Btw, cpanminus already Depends on
  
  perl (>= 5.14) | libversion-requirements-perl

So it should be possible to remove libversion-requirements-perl now, right?

Cheers

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