Le 31 mai 2013 14:39, "Salvatore Bonaccorso" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Package: release-notes > Tags: patch > > Hi Michael > > For reference, this is from http://bugs.debian.org/594273#54 > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 03:11:06PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > I'm not sure it is the right place - the RM bugreport - > > to add this information to. > > > > The thing is: finally, wheezy is out without this module. > > And it turns out that many 3rd-party code still uses the > > old name, despite the new name being in core perl for > > quite a while. > > > > In particular, when upgrading postgresql.org to wheezy, > > this change (removal of Digest::SHA1) was one of the main > > issues, significantly bigger than all other together. > > There were about 40 modules/programs which used the old > > name, which all, at the same time, stopped working, and > > it tool quite some efforts to figure it all out and to > > make it all work again. > > > > This pain could be reduced significantly by one of at least > > two ways: > > > > 1. By documenting the fact that this module is no longer > > available, somewhere in release notes or something like > > that. One of the issues faced was complete lack of any > > information about this, and even searching does not reveal > > anything useful easily (google finds oldstable package but > > not this removal request). > > This sounds like a good plan as libdigest-sha1-perl was nevertheless > still widely used. Attached is the patch proposed to apply to the > release-notes. > > > 2. By providing a compatibility layer, a tiny wrapper that > > just maps one namespace into another. I don't remember how > > this works in perl, but I guess it should be more or less > > trivial to do - so that old Digest::SHA1 name still works > > (maybe printing some deprecation warning or something). > > > > Either as an additional package (maybe using the same old > > name - libdigest-sha1-perl), or within core perl itself. > > IMO not the right approach as the aim was really to drop the use of > the obsoleted Digest::SHA1. But adding a release-notes entry is surely > more than worth.
Please add a Lintian test or ask for a test for checking obsolete module > Regards, > Salvatore
