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

Sat Oct 12 14:11:48 UTC 2013

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:14:49 +0300
Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

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

Sadly that's not going to be universally possible.

List::Util only contains abstract functions, implemented in XS purely
for performance, so these could have a pure-perl fallback. But
prettymuch all of the functions in Scalar::Util attempt some kind of
internal hackery, such as weaken() or set_prototype(), that would not
be possible from PP code.

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