Bug#818222: libzeromq-perl: uses old libzmq1, should switch to libzmq5

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Emilio,

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:29:30AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 20/05/16 18:14, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 09:50:58PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> >> Control: tag -1 + upstream
> >>
> >> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:56:04 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:17 PM, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:46:06 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >>>>> Yes. Bumping this to RC so we don't release stretch with it, and opening
> >>>>> bugs for the rdeps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Changing the build dep from libzmq-dev to libzmq5-dev is not enough
> >>>> it seems:
> >>> [...]
> >>>  This is expected. Please note that zeromq is 2.x, while zeromq3 went
> >>> through 3.x -> 4.0.x -> 4.1.x evolution.
> >>> Please ask your upstream to port the code to the latest (4.1) zeromq version.
> >>
> >> Thanks for confirming my hunch.
> >> Will forward upstream (who hasn't been very active lately.)
> > 
> > If I'm not completely mistaken: I doupt that it will ported. on
> > metacpan.org the module is marked as deprecated:
> > 
> >  ZeroMQ - A ZeroMQ2 wrapper for Perl (DEPRECATED)
> > 
> >  Please note that this module has been DEPRECATED in favor of
> >  ZMQ::LibZMQ2, ZMQ::LibZMQ3, and ZMQ. [...]
> > 
> > I think libzeromq-perl thus might be better a candidate to be removed
> > from the archive. Removal means:
> > 
> > ----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----
> > carnil at coccia:~$ dak rm --suite=sid -n -R libzeromq-perl
> > Will remove the following packages from sid:
> > 
> > libzeromq-perl |     0.23-1 | source
> > libzeromq-perl |  0.23-1+b1 | arm64, mips64el, ppc64el
> > libzeromq-perl |  0.23-1+b3 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc
> > libzeromq-perl |  0.23-1+b5 | s390x
> > 
> > Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > 
> > ------------------- Reason -------------------
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Checking reverse dependencies...
> > # Broken Depends:
> > libmessage-passing-zeromq-perl: libmessage-passing-zeromq-perl
> > 
> > # Broken Build-Depends:
> > libmessage-passing-zeromq-perl: libzeromq-perl
> > 
> > Dependency problem found.
> > 
> > carnil at coccia:~$
> > ----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----
> 
> Maybe libmessage-passing-zeromq-perl should be removed as well, it's got no rdeps:
[...]

Yes, that is the intention. I mentioned it in the RM request, which I
filled as: #824905.

Regards,
Salvatore