Introduction
Perl 4 era libraries (*.pl) have been deprecated in 5.14 and are likely to be removed in 5.16.
We would like to remove these references from packages before wheezy, so that we don't have to Depend on them for a release cycle, like we are with some other deprecated modules). See #629472 for more information.
The following Lintian warnings are currently defined:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep.html
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/perl-module-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep.html
The next step is to categorize each report according to whether the use of perl 4 libs is in the shipped software, or only as an example. The examples can probably be overridden, or at least would not block removal of the core libs in wheezy+1 on their own. It would be useful to also categorize which libraries are being used. This can all sit in a table on this wiki page.
Once this has been done, we can consider filing bugs against such packages with proposed patches. In some cases it may be possible to suggest an easy alternative; in some cases it may be appropriate just to add the dependency on libperl4-corelibs-perl.
Affected packages
Binary package name |
Library/libraries used |
Example only? |
Bug filed? |
fvwm |
getcwd.pl |
N |
N |
|| info2man || flush.pl || N || N ||
libcgi-simple-perl |
shellwords.pl |
N |
N |
libperlmenu-perl |
termcap.pl |
N |
N |
adzapper |
flush.pl |
N |
N |
am-utils |
ctime.pl |
Y |
N |
amanda-server |
newgetopt.pl |
N |
N |
autoconf2.13 |
find.pl |
N |
N |
cdrdao |
getopts.pl |
Y |
N |
cfengine2 |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
cgvg |
find.pl |
N |
N |
cvs |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
cvs2html |
getopts.pl, ctime.pl |
N |
N |
dist |
getopts.pl, shellwords.pl |
N |
N |
dspam-webfrontend |
ctime.pl |
N |
N |
flowscan |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
giflib-tools |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
gnuplot-doc |
ctime.pl |
Y |
N |
gri |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
ifmail |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
imageindex |
flush.pl |
N |
N |
inn |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
libnet-rawip-perl |
getopts.pl |
Y |
N |
lsof |
getopts.pl |
Y |
N |
mgetty-fax |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
mgp |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
mh-book |
shellwords.pl, ctime.pl |
Y |
N |
mrtg-contrib |
find.pl, stat.pl |
Y |
N |
nas-bin |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
net-acct |
ctime.pl |
Y |
N |
pari-gp |
newgetopt.pl |
N |
N |
perlindex |
find.pl |
N |
N |
samba-doc |
getopts.pl |
Y |
N |
skktools |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
ssake |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
tedia2sql |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
texlive-base |
newgetopt.pl |
N |
N |
vim-runtime |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
wu-ftpd |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
wwwstat |
getopts.pl |
N |
N |
Common libraries in use
Library name |
Number of occurrences |
Notes on replacement |
getopts.pl |
22 |
|
ctime.pl |
6 |
|
find.pl |
4 |
|
flush.pl |
3 |
|
shellwords.pl |
3 |
|
newgetopt.pl |
3 |
|
getcwd.pl |
1 |
|
termcap.pl |
1 |
|