unite perl and perl-modules?

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Niko Tyni wrote:
> I don't think Brendan is subscribed to the Alioth list, so CC'ing
> him explicitly. I've usually used perl at packages.debian.org to reach
> all interested parties FWIW.
Ok, will use next time.

>> The topic which I want to arise today is dealing with #495394, an important
>> bug about circular dependency 'perl <-> perl-modules'. I propose to unite
>> these two into one 'perl' package.
> 
> Are you aware of the recent related discussion in #536384, which I forgot
> to clone? It seems I'm the most conservative here. Brendan already said
> he's in favour of merging the packages.
I read through this one recently, but missed it now.

>> Is there something I missed? Thoughts?
> 
> Making perl-modules a transitional empty package that depends on perl
> (but not vice versa) would make 2) a smooth transition. (Making perl just
> Provide perl-modules would break versioned dependencies on perl-modules.)
Good point.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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