Re: perl versioned Provides in sid again
On Friday, 7 December 2018 16:55:55 CET Niko Tyni wrote:
> No immediate action is required from packages affected by this change,
> but they can now gradually start moving from the current idiom
> Depends: perl (>= x) | libfoo-bar-perl (>= y)
> to just the 'libfoo-bar-perl (>= y)' part. This will need some changes
> to lintian recommendations as well.
I'm afraid a dual dependency must stay until either:
- libfoo-bar-perl (>= y) is satisfied by the modules shipped
with perl >= 5.28.1-3
- the version requirement of libfoo-bar-perl is irrelevant because even old-
stable ships with libfoo-bar-perl (>= y)
Otherwise we might break backports.
Thoughts ?
All the best
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