On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:04 PM, John D Jones III <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/17/14 16:32, Jason St. John wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Is there any reason to keep AUR packages for Perl core modules? The >> only reason I can think of is if there is an important bug fix or >> feature addition that has not made it into the latest Perl release >> yet, but I'm guessing this doesn't happen very often. >> >> Should _all_ AUR packages for Perl core modules be deleted or should >> only AUR packages where the latest version on CPAN is <= the provides >> list for the 'perl' package in [core] be deleted? If so, should I/we >> just send an email to this list, as usual, for all of these packages? >> >> Jason >> > > Jason: > Well it depends on the core module. Certain ones like: CPANPLUS for instance > as well as some of it's dependencies, warn loudly about CPANPLUS being > removed from CORE in an up coming version of Perl and to install from CPAN. > I have a few I maintain for that reason, so when that Perl version hits the > Core repo, they're already there and won't break pplz code. These cases are > cases where we want them there. > > On the other hand, once a module that was not in CORE on older versions > become CORE modules, I believe that the corresponding AUR Package should be > removed. I've lamented a few times about packages like Catalyst::Runtime > that complain about needing a newer module than what's available in CORE, > I've debated seeing about submitting these new versions; the time or two > I've tried, I've been staunchly rejected but the AUR uploader. Thankfully > this is rare, and it's usually a module in Community, where one can just > mark that package out of date. > > I've tried to be vigilant about the CORE modules that are warning loudly > about being removed from CORE and getting an AUR PKGBUILD up as quickly as > possible; This is the only viable argument for CORE modz in AUR as far as > I'm concerned. > > -- > Thanks, > John D Jones III > UNIX Zealot; Perl Lover > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://zoelife4u.org/
Is there a list published somewhere of the core modules that will be removed in upcoming versions of Perl? I have a small Perl script that can check a given module and its version, but if a list has already been made, that would be easier for me than hacking it to check the big list of provided modules from the perl package in [core]. Thanks, Jason
