[Buildroot] [pkg-perl infra V5 8/8] cpanminus: remove it

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 18:56:32 UTC 2014


Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> schreef:
>Dear François Perrad,
>
>On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:18:08 +0100, François Perrad wrote:
>> 2014-02-07 21:50 GMT+01:00 Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi François,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Francois Perrad <fperrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> cpanminus was marked as broken, now it becomes useless with the Perl infrastructure.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
>> >> ---
>> >>  package/Config.in              |    1 -
>> >>  package/cpanminus/Config.in    |   40 ----------------------------------
>> >>  package/cpanminus/cpanminus.mk |   47 ----------------------------------------
>> >>  3 files changed, 88 deletions(-)
>> >>  delete mode 100644 package/cpanminus/Config.in
>> >>  delete mode 100644 package/cpanminus/cpanminus.mk
>> >>
>> >
>> > Shouldn't we add an entry in Config.in.legacy for the removed symbol?
>> >
>> 
>> Perhaps, we could do an exception.
>> The log of package/cpanminus/Config.in contains only 2 entries :
>> *     cpanminus: mark as broken    Thomas Petazzoni    2012-11-16
>> *     cpanminus: new package    Francois Perrad    2012-11-03
>
>I agree with François. cpanminus was marked as broken very quickly
>after it was introduced, and broken packages cannot be selected in
>menuconfig. cpanminus has never been selectable in any Buildroot
>stable release, so there is no need to keep compatibility.
>

That's ok for me too...




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