On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:03:24AM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > This package currently uses one or more deprecated perl 4 era packages, > as shown on the lintian report[1]: > > usr/share/vim/vim73/tools/shtags.pl:48 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.
This script isn't installed in a standard $PATH, isn't used by anything in the Vim packaging or referenced by anything other than its own documentation, and is essentially unneeded since ctags handles Perl now. I'm not inclined to add dependencies for a script that most people are unlikely to even know exists and even fewer are likely to use. I'll see if upstream is fine with removing it or at least not installing it by default. It might be easiest to just exclude tools/ from the packaging in general. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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