Bug#630399: perl: multiarch libc and partial upgrades

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:28:31PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Based on this, I think it's feasible for libc6 to Break just perl-modules.
> Of course, this can be revisited in case it causes actual upgrade problems.

One more note on this: I think it would be better for libc6 to Break
perl and not perl-modules. Otherwise we'd need to raise the version of
perl that perl-modules depends on at least temporarily.

 Package: perl
 Depends: perl-base (= ${binary:Version}), perl-modules (>= ${source:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}

 Package: perl-modules
 Depends: perl (>= ${Upstream-Version}-1)

(In both cases we rely on the newer perl pulling in the newer perl-base
 with a fixed $Config{libpth}.)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org