Bug#758100: perl: adopt versioned provides

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:58:55PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

Update: David Kalnischkies has added support in apt_1.0.7 (thanks!)

   * support versioned provides as implemented by dpkg (Closes: 758153)

So it looks like we might be able to start using this after jessie.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org