On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:55:16 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > I've gone through the changes to dual-lived module Breaks in perl 5.22, > and drawn up a list of packages which need attention: > https://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/dual-lived.txt Thanks! > In particular, where the dual-lived packages haven't been in the archive > since oldoldstable, are we happy to remove the Breaks from the perl > package? The main benefit is to make perl's debian/control slightly more > readable. The Provides/Replaces could stay if we wanted. I think that should be safe; the chance of a backport of 5.22 to (old)oldstable is rather slim IMO :) > I will probably defer filing bugs on the 'normal' category bugs on that > list until the migration, since there's no actual impact on the migration > and upstream updates might occur naturally in the meantime. Right; some of them (Module::CorelList and the whole *Compress* family at least have frequent updates on the CPAN). > On which note: does anyone know why (for example): > > ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn libautodie-perl > > lists, eg, librun-parts-perl for removal, when libautodie-perl is > provided by perl the the librun-parts-perl dep is unversioned? Ansgar on IRC: seems to be a known issue with dak's rdep handling in the case of real/virtual dual packages. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Joan Baez: Manha de Carnaval
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