Hi, On 18/06/17 19:26, Niko Tyni wrote: > [bcc'd -release as a heads-up, but I guess this should stay on -devel] > > Hi, and thanks to everybody who contributed to the stretch release! > > As discussed in #758100, I'd like to switch to using versioned Provides > in perl/perl-base/perl-modules-5.xx for buster. I'd be interested to > hear if anybody knows of any remaining blockers for that. > > The change is already in place in experimental for the Perl 5.26 packages, > and our test rebuilds indicate things seem to be working OK. The issues > on the archive / infrastructure side that I'm aware of have been fixed: > > - britney support has been in place for a year (#786803) > > - wanna-build should be fine with the dose3 in stretch (#786671) > > There's an open policy bug about this in #761219. I see a dozen or so > packages (mostly PHP related) in sid already seem to be using versioned > Provides, so the archive does seem ready, but I'm trying to play it > safe with such core packages as the src:perl ones. > > My current thinking would be not to couple this change with the future > Perl 5.26 transition, so I'm planning to push this into sid (= the 5.24 > packages) soonish. Unless there's a reason not to? One thing I did notice recently was #864906 in apt-cudf where versioned provides broke the acuspd resolver slightly. I guess this will only affect experimental builds though (where that resolver is used). James
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