Bug#887542: [request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#887542: libemail-address-list-perl depends on libemail-address-perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 23 May 2018 19:38:22 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:57:23PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:41:57 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Perl module Email::Address::List is probably not possible to fix. But
> > > perl module Email::Address::XS already provides methods for parsing
> > > list/groups of email addresses -- functionality which is provided by
> > > Email::Address::List. Therefore applications which depends on
> > > Email::Address::List can be rewritten to use Email::Address::XS.
> > 
> > libemail-address-list-perl has one reverse dependency:
> > request-tracker4.
> > 
> The bug about that is here:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887551

That's about libemail-address-perl directly; I just checked the
possibility to remove libemail-address-list-perl (because of its
dependency on libemail-address-perl); but yeah, in the end it boils
down to the same topic.
 
> It looks like a lot of other rdep must have gone away since I wrote
> the last update on that mail. Then again, as long as it is marked
> deprecated, perhaps the cost of keeping it in Debian until that bug
> is fixed is not that high?

Ack, I'm in no specific hurry, just going through Pali's bug reports
and looking at the situation.


Cheers,
gregor

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