Bug#114920: PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Proposal:
> Replace section 3.2 of the perl sub-policy included with Debian policy
> with the following text:
> Packages which contain perl modules should provide virtual packages
> that correspond to the primary module or modules in the package. The
> naming convention is that for module 'Foo::Bar', the package should
> provide 'libfoo-bar-perl'. This may be used as the package's name if
> the result is not too long and cumbersome. Or the package's name may
> be an abbreviated version, and the longer name put in the Provides
> field.
I object. Until versioned provides work reliably, doing this prevents
any use of versioned dependencies on such packages which may come back
to haunt us.
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