Bug#214661: libapache-mod-perl: Depends on libperl >= 5.8.1
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Srdjan wrote:
> I couldn't help noticing that libapache-mod-perl again has >= dependancy
> on libperl.
This is created by ${shlibs:Depends} and it is correct.
> That kind of dependancy caused the recent breakage.
perl abi is broken and it was not supposed to break for a minor release.
Consider it as an isolated case.
> I must
> admit that I don't know much about dpkg, but it might be beneficial to
> set exact version dependancy (= rather than >=) so things don't break in
> the future. Thanks.
This simply cannot be done otherwise each time there is a perl upload we
need an apache upload.
If you have nothing to object i will close this bug
Fabio
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