Bug#648954: perl: add Breaks on doc-base with fix for #648937

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Package: perl
Version: 5.14.2-4
Severity: serious

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:57:24AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> This is not a bug in liblocale-gettext-perl. It bites use every time
> that we upgrade to a perl version with an incompatible ABI.
>
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479681 for more
> explanation. I just filed the bug against doc-base because one should
> not rely on Locale::gettext in maintainer scripts if we want those
> maintainer scripts to work during upgrades...
> 
> Looking further the maintainer already did the right thing (that's why
> liblocale-gettext-perl is also not listed in the Depends field of
> doc-base) except it needs the environment variable to disable lazy bind,
> otherwise the error is not caught at load time but triggered at run-time.

Thanks. I'm filing this new bug against perl so that we can add a Breaks
against doc-base when #648937 is fixed.

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