I would like to try and ensure that wheezy releases without any packages which use the deprecated perl 4 libraries without depending on the separate libperl4-corelibs-perl package.
You can see more details, and a list of packages, at <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/Transitions/Perl4CoreLibs> and <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629472> I would like to file bugs against these packages, together with patches if possible, to fix the issues (I'm hoping that other members of the Debian Perl group might be able to help out with this, too). Severity: normal seems appropriate, at least initially. The ideal route is to have the applications switch to the more modern equivalents of the libraries (which are all listed on the wiki page) but the safe (and thus NMU-based) method will be, I think, to just add a dependency on libperl4-corelibs-perl; it's much better to get the dependency added, if if you plan to move away from the libraries later. Note that programs using these libraries without libperl4-corelibs-perl should already be producing warnings when run. Does this bug-filing and possible NMUing sound reasonable? I've included a dd-list of packages (excluding those where the issue only exists in an example) below. Thanks, Dominic. Andreas Barth <a...@not.so.argh.org> mgetty Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> ssake (U) Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> libcgi-simple-perl (U) Antonio Radici <anto...@dyne.org> cfengine2 Aurelien Labrosse <aurelien.labro...@free.fr> dspam (U) Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> amanda Ben Pfaff <pfaff...@debian.org> autoconf2.13 Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> pari Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> ssake (U) Christoph Haas <h...@debian.org> dspam (U) Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> info2man Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org> perlindex (U) Debian DSPAM Maintainers <pkg-dspam-m...@lists.alioth.debian.org> dspam Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org> ssake Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> libcgi-simple-perl perlindex Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> mgp wu-ftpd Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org> texlive-base Debian Vim Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> vim Deepak Tripathi <apenguinli...@gmail.com> libperlmenu-perl Frank Küster <fr...@debian.org> texlive-base (U) gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> libcgi-simple-perl (U) perlindex (U) Guillaume Delacour <g...@iroqwa.org> flowscan Ignace Mouzannar <mouzan...@gmail.com> perlindex (U) James McCoy <james...@debian.org> vim (U) Jesus Climent <mo...@debian.org> dspam (U) Jose Luis Rivas <ghost...@debian.org> libcgi-simple-perl (U) Julien Valroff <jul...@debian.org> dspam (U) Julián Moreno Patiño <darkju...@gmail.com> cvs2html Kurt B. Kaiser <k...@shore.net> dspam (U) Leo Costela <cost...@debian.org> tedia2sql Ludovic Drolez <ldro...@debian.org> adzapper Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> dist Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> ifmail inn Matthias Urlichs <sm...@debian.org> mgetty (U) Matthijs Mohlmann <matth...@cacholong.nl> dspam (U) Michael Ablassmeier <a...@debian.org> imageindex Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> libcgi-simple-perl (U) Norbert Preining <prein...@debian.org> texlive-base (U) Peter Pentchev <r...@ringlet.net> wwwstat Peter S Galbraith <p...@debian.org> gri Rudolf Weber <rud...@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de> dspam (U) Ryan Niebur <r...@debian.org> libcgi-simple-perl (U) Sergio Talens-Oliag <s...@debian.org> cgvg Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> nas Tatsuya Kinoshita <t...@debian.org> skktools Thibaut GRIDEL <tgri...@free.fr> giflib Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> cvs -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120130191825.gq4...@urchin.earth.li