Re: Bug#774844: xfonts-traditional: fails to upgrade from 'wheezy': Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:39:29 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Maybe this leads to a rule like:
> If maintainer scripts (including triggers!) use some module
> from perl-modules, the package needs to depend on perl-modules.
> An indirect dependency through perl is not sufficient.
This sounds error-prone to me, as maintainers would have to find out
which package contains the module, and track this information when
modules are moved. I guess Niko's idea of adding a Breaks on the old
perl to perl-base and perl-modules is both less work and more
reliable.
Cheers,
gregor
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