Bug#3242: perl's dependencies are wrong
>>>>> "D" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca> writes:
D> You are missing the fact that a package "source" (now obsolete)
D> is not the same as a package "kernel-source-1.3.100".
You mean missing from my bug report?
It seems to me that my brain is not missing anything, but that either
the perl package or the unstable tree is/was missing something. Sorry
if I'm being dense:
I noticed
1) perl requires/required "source"
2) no package that provided (the virtual package) source seemed to
be available in the unstable tree
3) Though "kernel-source-1.3.100" was conceptually similar and
probably provided the actual files perl needed, it did
not coordinate with perl in dselect/dpkg.
4) as a result of 1-3, I could not get a full version of perl going
(could not run perlconfig properly).
So that seemed like something to report....
D> Perl has been upgraded yesterday or so. Try version -10.
I will.
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