Bug#725899: perl-base: Needs versioned Conflicts on libscalar-list-utils-perl

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:17:08PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 20:42:47 +0100
> Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> 
> > Could you say what you need from a newer libscalar-list-utils-perl
> > package? Depending on what the issue is, we could consider changes in
> > perl-base. This bug report can serve to track better solutions to the
> > problem too; but I don't see an easy fix.
> 
> Ah I see.. that is an awkward bug.

> Is there anything I could do upstream to help the situation?

Resurrecting the pure perl fallback would help, but I know there's a
bit of history behind that...

General solutions revolve around perl-base and its @INC; while this issue
doesn't have a high priority, I have it on my list to revisit it properly.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org