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Re: 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 Wed, 2013-08-28 at 12:15 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Indeed, so this bug is nonsense.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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