Bug 525368 – dev-perl/DateTimeX-Easy-0.89.0 should NOT depend on DateTime-Format-DateManip

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2014-10-14 02:46:06 UTC]

1. DateTime-Format-DateManip is no longer required by upstream since 0.089

https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=ROKR/DateTimeX-Easy-0.089/&source=RKRIMEN/DateTimeX-Easy-0.088/

2. DateTime-Format-DateManip fails tests since back at Perl 5.10 and upstream is, for all intents and purposes, dead.  ( Last release was 2004, that's 10 years ago )

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DateTime-Format-DateManip&maxver=

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55771

3. Brokenness has increased drastically with this module since DateManip 6, and DateManip 5.x has been gone from Gentoo since June 2014.

http://analysis.cpantesters.org/solved?distv=DateTime-Format-DateManip-0.04#mod%3ADate%3A%3AManip

4. Nothing else in tree appears to depend on DTFDM

Thus, by breaking this un-needed dependency, we can schedule DateTime-Format-DateManip for tree cleaning. =)

[Comment 1 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2014-10-17 20:19:00 UTC]

Fixed, thanks.