'perl-modules' -> 'perl' transition

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> >> Perl maintainers are to merge the package 'perl-modules' to 'perl'.
> > 
> > Can I ask why?
> > 
> > perl currently is architecture any, whereas perl-modules is
> > architecture all, so this seems like a step backwards.
> 
> The rationale is available in the thread at

The only valid reason I see there is the issue of an architecture
failing if it is out of sync, but that's easily solvable with an =
dependency on the source version of the perl-modules package from
perl.

Circular dependencies between two packages, one arch all and the other
arch any, should never be a problem. If you don't agree, can you at
least raise this on -devel for discussion before proceeding? I'd
rather everyone avoid useless work.


Don Armstrong

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