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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 03:11:48PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> 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.

I think in principle we're happy to update Scalar-List-Utils in
perl-base; I had a look at doing this and just now need to fix up the
porting tests.

Niko, would you be happy with such an upload once it's tested?

Cheers,
Dominic.