Bug#665384: perl: Please conflict with versions of mono-gac that use perl-modules

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.14.2-6
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch
 
> I've filed bug #665335 against the mono package in Debian, about the fact
> that a script which is called whenever a -cil package is removed has a
> spurious dependency on perl-modules, making upgrades brittle across new
> upstream versions of perl.
> 
> Once this bug is fixed in mono (speculatively in version 2.10.8.1-3), I
> think the right course of action is for perl to conflict with the old
> versions of mono-gac to ensure mono-gac gets upgraded before any of the perl
> packages are unpacked.  The attached patch should do this.

Thanks. Looks right to me, we've added similar conflicts in the past.

It's probably unnecessary for 'perl' itself to have this conflict, 'perl-base'
and 'perl-modules' should be enough AFAICS as File::Basename doesn't need
anything from 'perl'. It shouldn't hurt though.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org