Bug#758100: versioned Provides reverted in src:perl for now

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Tue Jul 3 16:50:52 BST 2018


On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 08:27:57PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
 
> I have reverted the versioned Provides in src:perl for now because
> wanna-build is leaving some packages in B-D-Uninstallable (#867104)
> due to no fault of their own.
> 
> The versioned Provides were introduced in sid with perl_5.24.1-5 a week
> ago, and in the meantime a separate issue (that we could probably have
> lived with for a bit longer at least) was found in autopkgtest and is
> tracked as #867081.

These bugs are now fixed (and deployed on the Debian infrastructure),
so we could try again.

I think I want to do the 5.28 transition first, though. There should
still be ample time before buster freezes.
-- 
Niko




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