Bug#808390: perl-base: Does not provide perl5-base anymore breaking unrelated software

[gregor herrmann]

Control: reassign -1 geneweb
Control: retitle -1 geneweb: uninstallable, depends on "perl5-base" which is gone in 5.22
Control: found -1 6.08dfsg-3
Control: severity -1 serious

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:23:51 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2015-12-19 13:48:17 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > New version seems to not provide perl5-base anymore. That breaks
> > unrelated software by deinstalling them when upgrading perl.
> > 
> > Package where I seen that problem is geneweb. Until that is fixed, I am
> > not able to update my system to new perl version.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be a bug in perl-base. The changelog says:
> 
> [...]
>   * Various cleanups to dependency fields
>     - we no longer provide the perl5, perl5-base, and data-dumper virtual
>       packages
> [...]
> 
> So, the remove of perl5-base has been done on purpose, and packages
> that depend on it need to be fixed.

This is correct.

We (as in the perl maintainers and the pkg-perl team) caught most of
these issues before 5.22 hit unstable, unfortunately we missed a
couple, and we're already on our way to report bugs/prepare NMUs for
the remaining few packages. 


Repurposing this bug report for geneweb which doesn't have a bug
filed yet.


Cheers,
gregor

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