Bug#608385: perl: provide libencode-perl

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-16

Filing a bug so I don't forget. The ITP is #608294 .

The main thing is to add Provides: libencode-perl so that any unversioned
dependencies don't pull in the separate package unnecessarily.

The Conflicts+Replaces could wait for later but it doesn't hurt to add
them at the same time.

----- Forwarded message from Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> -----

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:41:16 +0000
From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>
To: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Cc: perl at packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: Encode >= 2.39
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:30:41PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:05:40 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > The obvious way would seem to be move
> > libencode-perl out of attic/ and update it to the latest upstream
> > release and upload to unstable (or, conservatively, experimental).
> > Presumably we'd then also need to update perl 5.12 to add a
> > Replaces: for this module.
> > 
> > Note that this would be necessary even with perl 5.12 moved to sid,
> > to support backports.
> > 
> > Does this seem like a reasonable strategy? 
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Okay. I've prepared this for upload and will do so next week.
CCing perl at packages.debian.org in case this needs some change in
the version of perl in experimental.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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