On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Thanks for the response; I think you've convinced me that this would > be the best approach, at least to start with. > > You're correct that build-time deps will be caught by rebuilds, once > the modules get removed. Ideally in this case we'd have all the > packages fixed well in advance of that; we'd like to be able to drop > them from wheezy+1 without worrying about partial upgrades breaking > things. However, this isn't actually a concern for situations where > the build fails. > > I take your point about starting off with the check marked as > experimental, although I would like this check to have the maximum > input before wheezy freezes, so your planned released schedule for > lintian may affect whether I'd like to have that included or not. > > I'm filing this as a wishlist bug without patch initially; I had a look > at the lintian git repository and couldn't initially see where the best > place to put such a check would be. If you can give me any hints about > where to start, I'll do so :) > > To make this bug report complete, here's a specification for the check: > > check in all perl source files in binary packages not depending on > libperl4-corelibs-perl for strings satisfying the following regexp: > > /(?:do|require)\s+(?:'|")(?:abbrev|assert|bigfloat|bigint|bigrat|cacheout|complete|ctime|dotsh|exceptions|fastcwd|find|finddepth|flush|getcwd|getopt|getopts|hostname|importenv|look|newgetopt|open2|open3|pwd|shellwords|stat|syslog|tainted|termcap|timelocal|validate)\.pl(?:'|")/ > > Tag: uses-perl4-libs > Severity: important > Certainty: possible > Experimental: yes > Info: This package includes perl programs using obsoleted perl 4-era > libraries. These libraries have been deprecated in perl in 5.14, and > are likely to be removed from the core in perl 5.16. Please either > remove references to these libraries, or add a dependency on > "libperl4-corelibs-perl | perl (<< 5.12.3-7)" to this package.
I've now sent a possible patch to lintian to the BTS (but forgot to CC [email protected]): <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636994#10> -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
