From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:29:16 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [pkg-perl infra V5 8/8] cpanminus: remove it In-Reply-To: References: <1391763337-30660-1-git-send-email-francois.perrad@gadz.org> <1391763337-30660-9-git-send-email-francois.perrad@gadz.org> Message-ID: <20140210192916.669fb580@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Fran?ois Perrad, On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:18:08 +0100, Fran?ois Perrad wrote: > 2014-02-07 21:50 GMT+01:00 Thomas De Schampheleire : > > Hi Fran?ois, > > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Francois Perrad wrote: > >> cpanminus was marked as broken, now it becomes useless with the Perl infrastructure. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad > >> --- > >> 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 Fran?ois. 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. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com