Bug#721115: linux-base: Depends on libuuid-perl then perlapi-5.14.2, however perlapi-5.14.2 was removed in perl (5.18.1-2)
On 2013-08-28 11:49 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 14:28 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
>> Package: linux-base
>> Version: 3.5
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> linux-base depends on libuuid-perl then perlapi-5.14.2, however
>> perlapi was removed in perl (5.18.1-2). This will cause the running
>> linux-image package to be removed.
>
> It looks like linux-base needs to be re-uploaded (it's arch:all, so
> binNMUs won't help).
No, why should it?
> http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.18.html apparently only
> covers dependencies on 'perl' not 'perlapi-5.14.2' so it seems to be
> understating the size of this transition.
>
> Does this make sense?
Not to me, linux-base does not depend on perl nor perl-api-5.14.2. All
that's needed is a rebuild of libuuid-perl against the newer perl, and
libuuid-perl is listed on the above page.
Cheers,
Sven
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