Bug#860208: libtest-tempdir-perl: deprecated upstream, update description

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Wed Apr 12 20:40:09 UTC 2017


Package: libtest-tempdir-perl
Version: 0.10-2
Severity: minor

Quoting the POD:

  DEPRECATION NOTICE
       There have been numerous issues found with this module,
       particularly with its use of locks (unreliable, may result in
       your entire $TMPDIR being deleted) and MSWin32 compatibility. As
       well, it uses Moose, which is nowadays considered to be heavier
       than necessary.

       Test::TempDir::Tiny was written as a replacement. Please use
       it instead!

I suggest updating the package long description to reflect this.

We have libtest-tempdir-tiny-perl in sid/stretch so that part is fine.

We probably don't want to remove libtest-tempdir-perl altogether for the
sake of existing users (though in the archive there are just a couple
of reverse build dependencies AFAICS...)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org



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