Bug#617985: perl-modules: missing Provides for File::Path (version 2.04 is in Perl 5.10.0)

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:47:06PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Hey Dominic,
> 
> >> I agree that the Provides/Conflicts/Replaces are missing for this module,
> >> but I'm not sure why you picked (<< 2.04): 5.10.1 has 2.07_03, so this
> >> should be (<< 2.08), shouldn't it?
> >
> > Nevermind, I realise now that the subject line explains that you were
> > looking at 5.10.0 (presumably by mistake).
> 
> You are correct of course :-)
> 
> As long as the correct Provides/Conflicts/Replaces stuff is added, I
> am happy. Will this require changes in the libfile-path-perl point of
> view? I haven't investigated so far, but my thought would be that only
> perl-modules needs to be changed.

My understanding is that no changes are needed to the CPAN versions
of the dual-lived modules. If you can tell me the name of the package
you had problems building in sbuild, I can double-check that the fix
works before uploading a new perl.

Dominic.

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