Bug#758100: perl: adopt versioned provides

[Niko Tyni]

block 758100 with 758153
thanks

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:10:34PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> On 08/14/2014 11:18, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > dpkg (1.17.11) unstable; urgency=low
> > [...]
> > * Add versioned Provides support:

> > Assuming dpkg in wheezy already accepts the versioned provides when
> > parsing, I suppose we could put them in the perl package straight away
> > and start cleaning the dependencies after jessie.
> 
> Does APT support this already?

Heh, judging by the changelog it probably doesn't. 
I've filed #758153 about that.

I suppose I got a bit carried away in my excitement. Thanks for the
reality check.
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