[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/13] microperl: mark as DEPRECATED

[François Perrad]

2012/9/21 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear François Perrad,
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:53:08 +0200, François Perrad wrote:
>
>> I added this commit after your request in
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/180227/ (Aug. 27, 2012, 9:54 p.m.)
>
> Yes, I perfectly remember asking you to mark microperl as deprecated,
> since you were saying that microperl was a dead-end. My question here
> is different: knowing that microperl is deprecated, why would we bother
> bumping its version, making fixes and so on? It doesn't look really
> interesting to write patches against deprecated and even less
> interesting to review such patches :-)
>

Today, 5 packages depend on microperl :
    autoconf
    automake
    ntp
    samba
    libxml-parser-perl (requires only a full host perl)
So, I think that it is not a good idea to remove it (after a deprecation).

François

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