Bug#536384: perl-modules must depend on perl-base (= 5.10.0-24) or ship the changelog.Debian.gz

[Brendan O'Dea]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Niko Tyni<ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:15:17PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>> I vote that we fix this "problem" by simply nailing the dependencies
>> between perl-base/perl/perl-modules to an exact equivalence.  [...]
>
> I agree with you that this is a cure worse than the disease. Furthermore,
> as Adrian stated, it has problems with binNMUs.

There are ways around that, have the perl package provide a name which
maps to the debian version less NMUs (either by manually updating
debian/control, or an automated process which removes bin NMUs from
the version).

Another alternative, certainly the simplest, would be to remove
perl-modules entirely and have those arch-indep parts included in the
perl package.  perl could transitionally provide perl-modules.  The
packages versions of perl/perl-modules were never intended to be
disjoint--the split was intended only to reduce redundancy in the
archive.  Is disk sufficiently cheap theses days that we no longer
care?