Bug#774844: xfonts-traditional: fails to upgrade from 'wheezy': Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-01-15 21:32, Niko Tyni wrote:
> So, even if we add the Breaks in perl-modules+perl-base, it looks like
> something else is needed. AFAICS either we need to somehow ensure that
> dpkg is upgraded first, or the xfonts-traditional trigger functionality
> needs to handle missing modules gracefully.

Do we have a list of packages that "trigger" xfonts-traditional?
Could they (or some of them or a common ancestor) depend on
dpkg (>= 1.17.triggerfixed)

> I'd love to hear thoughts on this. Also, my earlier questions still apply:
> does this imply that all packages with strict versioned dependencies
> and the like should more or less duplicate that information in Breaks
> entries ?

I think this list can be reduced to "Uses 'perl stuff that requires
strict dependencies' in their maintainer scripts."

Andreas