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1. Le Friday 8 September 2006 à 09:48, par DaTa

Well, I would prefer to adopt FreeBSDs BSDPAN. Under FreeBSD you can do `perl -MCPAN -e "install Foo::Bar"' and the module will be registered in the pkgdb. So you can deinstall the module with `pkg_delete p5-Foo-Bar'.

Something similar for Debian would be nice.

2. Le Friday 8 September 2006 à 10:03, par Zorglub

Not having been uploaded for years, or having 10 versions of backlog compared to upstream are not really good questions to ask (note: if you wanted only the Perl _modules_, you could probably grep for "lib" in the package name as well).

The right questions are: are these packages used/useful ? If yes, there is no reason to remove them, except if they are ridden with bugs and/or security problems. A module may not have been updated for years (or updated with minor improvements which are not useful to the users) and still work perfectly.

So looking at old and obsolete packages is not enough; comparing the results with data from popcon could help here.

Zorglub

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