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authorStig Palmquist <git@stig.io>2023-09-09 14:18:43 +0200
committerStig Palmquist <git@stig.io>2023-09-09 16:23:13 +0200
commitc8883bd0b785ddb2638175fd3697b0cff5690771 (patch)
tree3f5788eb803387a4852f75a39f1131aa4e9a6114 /pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
parent69bfaafc9d41bb4e36920c0d96ceb489c21fd129 (diff)
perldevel: add throwing alias
Add throw explaining that `perldevel` has been dropped due to not being
regularly updated in nixpkgs, and because devel versions of perl are not
consistently supported by perl-cross releases.
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diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d34e5e3fd7c07..95041195aaa18 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1305,6 +1305,8 @@ mapAliases ({
   percona-server = percona-server56; # Added 2022-11-01
   percona-server56 = throw "'percona-server56' has been dropped due to lack of maintenance, no upstream support and security issues"; # Added 2022-11-01
   percona-xtrabackup_2_4 = throw "'percona-xtrabackup_2_4' has been renamed to/replaced by 'percona-xtrabackup'"; # Added 2022-12-23
+  perldevel = throw "'perldevel' has been dropped due to lack of updates in nixpkgs and lack of consistent support for devel versions by 'perl-cross' releases, use 'perl' instead";
+  perldevelPackages = perldevel;
   perlXMLParser = throw "'perlXMLParser' has been renamed to/replaced by 'perlPackages.XMLParser'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   perlArchiveCpio = throw "'perlArchiveCpio' has been renamed to/replaced by 'perlPackages.ArchiveCpio'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   pgadmin = pgadmin4;