Bug#692305: libtest-simple-perl: superseded by perl, remove from wheezy?

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:28:54 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Package: libtest-simple-perl
> Version: 0.98-1
> x-debbugs-cc: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> 
> The Perl core packages contain the same version of Test::Simple as this
> package, so ideally we shouldn't ship this duplicate code in wheezy.

Hm, right.

Just some additional info:
 
> I count 19 packages in sid that have a problematic build dependency
> on this package. This includes unconditional versioned dependencies like
>  sd: libtest-simple-perl (>= 0.82)

sd is removed from testing due to RC bugs.

> and conditional ones where the first alternative is not the perl package:
>  libdata-optlist-perl: libtest-simple-perl (>= 0.96) | perl (>= 5.13.4)
> 
> The libtest-pod-no404s-perl package is the only one with a problematic
> dependency in a binary package.
> 
> These 19 packages would need to be fixed to read 
>  perl (>= xxx) | libtest-simple-perl (>= yyy)

The packages should (haven't checked now) all be already fixed in git
(mass-commit with cme's magic back in July) but ...

> before libtest-simple-perl could be removed from wheezy. I'm not sure
> this is worth the effort and will not pursue it myself, but cc'ing the
> debian-perl list in case somebody else feels like picking this up.

... I'm also not sure we want to upload 18 packages (which might have
additional changes in git already etc.) ...
 
> FWIW, all but the 'sd' package are maintained by the pkg-perl group.

(sd is in the pkg-perl git repo now, too, but not ready yet, AFAIK.)


Cheers,
gregor
 
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