[DEPRECATED] perl distributions

[Jon Turney]

On 30/01/2021 09:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> 
> The following distributions will no longer be available after the
> perl-5.32 release as they have been deprecated upstream:
> 
> perl-Gnome2                                  Achim Gratz
> perl-Gnome2-Canvas                           Achim Gratz
> perl-Gnome2-GConf                            Achim Gratz
> perl-Gnome2-Rsvg                             Achim Gratz
> perl-Gnome2-VFS                              Achim Gratz
> perl-Gnome2-Vte                              Achim Gratz
> perl-Gnome2-Wnck                             Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2                                    Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2-GladeXML                           Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2-Notify                             Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2-SourceView2                        Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2-Spell                              Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2-Unique                             Achim Gratz
> perl-Gtk2-WebKit                             Achim Gratz
> 
> There are no external dependencies to these, so please just mark them as
> OBSOLETE.

I've vaulted all versions of these packages. Sorry for taking so long to 
get around to this.


At the moment, 'OBSOLETE' in cygwin-pkg-maint has a very specific 
meaning: the line is simply ignored by calm.

If you just mark a package as OBSOLETE without any other action, calm's 
going to warn about an unexpected package in the relarea.

That works in the case when a package has been replaced by something 
else, and the historically necessary rearrangement to make the obsoleted 
package a sub-package of the package which replaces it has happened. (we 
didn't just remove the obsolete package because historically the 
obsoletion was recorded in the obsoleted package's metadata).

(There's a whole other set of considerations for packages with the 
category '_obsolete', but again I think those are historical artefacts)


I'm not sure what the word is for the status of these packages (but they 
are all deprecated upstream, don't have a direct replacement, probably 
aren't of any use to anybody, so clearly keeping them around any longer 
is pointless...)