Your message dated Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:04:23 +0100
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and subject line Re: faxrunqd uses getopts.pl
has caused the Debian Bug report #659425,
regarding mgetty-fax: Uses perl4 corelibs without Depends
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Package: mgetty-fax
Version: 1.1.36-1.6
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: perl4-corelibs
Dear maintainer,
This package currently uses one or more deprecated perl 4 era packages,
as shown on the lintian report[1]:
usr/sbin/faxrunqd:102 getopts.pl
As detailed at [2] we would like you to either add a dependency on
libperl4-corelibs-perl | perl (<< 5.12.3-7)
or (ideally) to replace their use with more modern equivalents.
We'd like to have this in place for wheezy, so that we can follow
cleanly the upstream deprecation cycle in wheezy+1.
If you prefer, I will NMU your package with the dependency added.
The wiki page [2] has references (taken from the source of the libraries
in question) for the recommended replacement libraries.
Thanks,
Dominic.
[1] <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep.html>
[2]
<http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/Transitions/Perl4CoreLibs>
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* Gert Doering ([email protected]) [120211 12:33]:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:46:35PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:41:42AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > I received a bugreport that faxrunqd uses getops.pl, whereas modern
> > > perl should use Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std.
> > >
> > > Gert, what's your opinion on that? Do you want to take Getopt::* in
> > > mgetty?
> >
> > I was young and didn't know better :-)
>
> Uh.
>
> Now *how* old exactly is the mgetty version in Debian...?
>
> faxrunqd's CVS history lists...
>
> # Revision 1.58 2002/03/19 12:20:45 gert
> # change from deprecated "require 'getopts.pl'" to "use Getopt::Std"
Make that my fault for not checking the bugreport before forwarding it
to you.
Sorry, I assumed the perl team to be right when reporting the bug.
Closing the bug now, it's a false positive.
Andi
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