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authordsainty <dsainty>2010-06-17 05:14:53 +0000
committerdsainty <dsainty>2010-06-17 05:14:53 +0000
commit05713f4b1e553f5fa1778b26e36eba1df0abe509 (patch)
treee44eedb606747b5ef59e3ccd640f7c51ceae00c4 /devel/p5-Error
parent118436cda12d3864ebbcfdcd45968d5296027c82 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-05713f4b1e553f5fa1778b26e36eba1df0abe509.tar.gz
Cut and paste the deprecated status of this module from its internal
documentation: Using the "Error" module is no longer recommended due to the black-magical nature of its syntactic sugar, which often tends to break. Its maintainers have stopped actively writing code that uses it, and discourage people from doing so.
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diff --git a/devel/p5-Error/DESCR b/devel/p5-Error/DESCR
index bffee46bfeb..d1e8e5b1aa5 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Error/DESCR
+++ b/devel/p5-Error/DESCR
@@ -5,5 +5,7 @@ a procedural interface to exception handling. Secondly Error is a
base class for errors/exceptions that can either be thrown, for
subsequent catch, or can simply be recorded.
-Errors in the class Error should not be thrown directly, but the
-user should throw errors from a sub-class of Error
+Using the "Error" module is no longer recommended due to the black-magical
+nature of its syntactic sugar, which often tends to break. Its maintainers
+have stopped actively writing code that uses it, and discourage people
+from doing so.