Bug#702096: Bug#711644: libcolor-library-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: uses modules deprecated in 5.18

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:09:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > Please depend/build-depend as appropriate on
> > 
> > libmodule-pluggable-perl | perl (<< 5.17.0)
> 
> This doesn't work for me, since perl-modules 5.18 provides
> libmodule-pluggable-perl (so the separate package doesn't get
> installed and the warning persists, leading to the test failure).
> 
> What works for me is:
> libmodule-pluggable-perl (>= 0) | perl (<< 5.17.0)
> 
> Not sure if this is a cowbuilder oddity; might be different in
> sbuilder ...
> 
> I'm commiting this now but will wait with an upload. 

I suspect the 5.18 perl packages shouldn't Provide virtual packages for
the deprecated modules. But I'm rather tired and may well be missing
something.

Cc'ing #702096 on the perl side.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org