From c8883bd0b785ddb2638175fd3697b0cff5690771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stig Palmquist <git@stig.io>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 14:18:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
 pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d34e5e3fd7c0..95041195aaa1 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;