Bug#649177: Add breaks on update-inetd when #649174 is fixed

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 18 14:47:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:32:52PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Package: perl-base
> Version: 5.14.2-5
> Severity: serious
> Justification: maintainer

Thanks.

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:14:05PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Making this truly robust will probably also involve having perl-base
> > declare Breaks on versions of update-inetd prior to this patch being
> > applied.  I've CCed perl at packages.debian.org in case they'd like to
> > comment on this.
> 
> Only that I think that I ought to hold off on adding more Breaks
> for a little while longer, otherwise I risk an explosion in the number
> of small updates to perl. I was in two minds about whether to upload
> 5.14.2-5 straight away or whether to wait..

Yep.  I suspect the impact of this is a bit less widespread than the
doc-base one anyway.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]






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