Bug#198479: general: package coming to sarge before their dependencies : breaks them.

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

Le Mon 23/06/2003, Colin Watson disait

> I haven't looked at them in detail. But:
> 
> html2ps is broken due to perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6
> version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl
> 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's
> dependencies, which remain very messy and complicated; my notes say that
> imagemagick needs the lcms dependency chain, which needs the gdbm
> dependency chain, which needs the libsigc++ dependency chain, which
> needs the libgc dependency chain. Only the last of those is close to
> being ready for testing yet.
> 
> apt-file is broken due to libapt-pkg-perl, which is still at a perl 5.6
> version in testing. Again, this was temporarily necessary because perl
> 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of libapt-pkg-perl's
> dependencies. Right now, apt's release-critical bugs need to be fixed
> before new versions of it and libapt-pkg-perl can move into testing.
> 
> > ANd I do not see the benefits of having broken packages.
> 
> New versions of perl and python and a number of other things were pushed
> into testing a number of weeks back. This allowed substantial
> improvements in many packages and unblocked a lot of development work,
> but unfortunately temporarily made some other things uninstallable. This
> will be resolved in time.

But why where html2ps and apt-file changed ? would keeping the old
versions break something else ?

-- 
Erwan