Bug#3242: perl's dependencies are wrong

[Matthew Swift <swift@bu.edu>]

>>>>> "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.