Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

[ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)]

Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>> (In fact, IMHO nothing should depends from perl-modules at all).
>
> Correct.  I'd prefer that nothing did. 

Is this documented anywhere? If is really is the case that nothing
should depend on perl-modules (but rather on perl itself), the Perl
Policy should mention it in the dependencies section.

> Selecting a random entry from that list with a versioned dependency,
> 'munin':
>
>   Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), perl-modules (>= 5.8.0) | libparse-recdescent-perl, [...]

Speaking as co-maintainer of munin, should we just change that to "perl
(>= 5.8.0) | libparse-recdescent-perl" instead? Won't lintian complain
about a duplicate relation on perl in that case, or has that been fixed?

(We want the packages to be installabe on woody with the minimum amount
of fuss, so we don't want to just depend on perl (>= 5.8.0)).

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