please drop transitional package libtime-modules-perl

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 879165 + patch pending
quit

Hi,

In October, 2017, gregor herrmann wrote:

> Control: clone -1 -2
> Control: reassign -2 gitweb
> Control: retitle -2 Please replace (build) dependency on libtime-modules-perl with libtime-parsedate-perl
> Control: block -1 with -2
>
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:06:27 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>
>> Please drop the transitional package libtime-modules-perl for buster,
>> as it has been released with jessie and stretch already.
>
> Difficult:
>
> % reverse-depends libtime-modules-perl
> Reverse-Recommends
> ==================
> * gitweb
>
> Reverse-Build-Depends
> =====================
> * git

Sorry I missed this.  For next time, please cc git at packages.debian.org
or gitweb at packages.debian.org when making such a reassignment to ensure
the maintainer of the receiving package notices the bug.

I'm applying the following now.  Thanks for your work, and apologies
again for the delay,
Jonathan

diff --git i/debian/changelog w/debian/changelog
index 220747084a..45aa1cd977 100644
--- i/debian/changelog
+++ w/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ git (1:2.20.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
   * package git-gui: actually Suggests: meld for mergetool support;
     describe what meld is used for in package description (thx Jens
     Reyer; closes: #707790).
+  * package gitweb: Depends: libhttp-date-perl | libtime-parsedate-perl
+    instead of ... | libtime-modules-perl (thx gregor herrmann; closes:
+    #879165).
   * debian/control: use https in Vcs-Browser URL.
 
  -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>  Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:36:25 -0800
diff --git i/debian/control w/debian/control
index 12450b1af3..965b8c6b36 100644
--- i/debian/control
+++ w/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Build-Depends: libz-dev, gettext,
  libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libexpat1-dev,
  subversion, libsvn-perl, libyaml-perl,
  tcl, python,
- libhttp-date-perl | libtime-modules-perl,
+ libhttp-date-perl | libtime-parsedate-perl,
  libcgi-pm-perl,
  liberror-perl,
  libmailtools-perl,
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, git (>> ${source:Upstream-Version}), git (<< ${source:Upstream-Version}-.),
  perl, libcgi-pm-perl
 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
-Recommends: ${misc:Recommends}, libhttp-date-perl | libtime-modules-perl
+Recommends: ${misc:Recommends}, libhttp-date-perl | libtime-parsedate-perl
 Breaks: apache2.2-common (<< 2.3~)
 Suggests: httpd-cgi | libcgi-fast-perl, git-doc
 Description: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (web interface)