Bug#294732: apt experimental 0.6.25 depends on obsolete libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.11.2 and blocks testing packages
On Friday, February 11, 2005 11:56 AM, Michal J. Gajda
<misiek@genesilico.pl> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.25
> Severity: normal
> Tags: experimental
>
> Since experimental apt gives release signature checking it seems quite
> widely used.
> Unfortunately it depends on long obsolete libapt-pkg-perl:
[...]
> This blocks all packages depending on libapt-pkg-perl:
Erm... AFAICS, you have this entirely back-to-front. apt *does* *not* depend
on libapt-pkg-perl; quite the opposite, in fact.
apt provides a virtual package which specifies its API version. The version
of apt in unstable provides libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3, whereas the version of
experimental provides libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.5.
The latest version of libapt-pkg-perl (which is maintained by the perl
maintainer, not the apt maintainers) still depends on
libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3, which is quite correct as the package in unstable
must use the same API version as the apt in unstable.
IMHO, this bug should either be closed or reassigned to libapt-pkg-perl as a
wishlist request for an upload to experimental that depends on the new API.
Regards,
Adam
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