Re: error

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> >> there is an error in
> >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/lvs-kiss.html
> >> namely perl was doubled
> > 
> > It depends on both perl and libtime-hires-perl; the latter is a
> > virtual package provided by perl.  Is this is a bug in the package
> > scripts or the package dependencies?
> 
>  Rather the package dependencies.  libtime-hires-perl made it to a core
> library from 5.6 to 5.8 IIRC, so the dependency is missing in there.

If I get this right, I don't think that's a bug. Keeping the virtual package
for that specific functionality sounds like a perfectly normal idea -- it
makes the package work both with old and new Perl.

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