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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 01:21:42PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> clone 725899 -1
> retitle -1 perl-base: perl-base and dual life modules don't fit together
> submitter -1 !
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 12:03:40AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Happy is not quite the right word. Clearly this isn't how things should
> go in a perfect world. But sure, it seems to be the only viable short
> term solution. Feel free to go ahead, and thanks for working on this.
> 
> Do we need to do something about Module::Corelist? Hopefully not, but
> it's sort of lying after this. If we have to, i guess we could fork it
> into Module::Corelist::Debian or something...

Hi all,

I'm sorry about the slow progress here. For such an apparently simple
task I keep on running into issues integrating a new upstream version into
the package, and whilst none of them are likely to be particularly hard
to fix, I'm now wondering whether it's really worth bending the package
this way given that we are not so far away from perl 5.20.

Dominic.