Bug#912684: perl-modules-5.28 needs versioned Provides for modules it bundles

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:03:43 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Package: perl-modules-5.28
> Version: 5.28.0-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> perl-modules-5.28 has
>   Replaces+Breaks: libextutils-parsexs-perl (<< 3.390000)
> 
> This makes libextutils-parsexs-perl in unstable not installable.

Right, thanks also for filing a bug against libextutils-parsexs-perl.
(This happens for each release that some dual-lifed modules are newer
in core than their separate equivalents on the CPAN. Either this
fixes itself with a new separate release or we remove the package at
some point.)
 
> libextutils-parsexs-perl does have reverse dependencies
> in unstable, including revers dependencies with versioned
> dependencies.

I checked all reverse (build) dependencies and didn't see any
problems; all of them are either unversioned or have the form "perl
(>= 5.x) | libextutils-parsexs-perl [(>= 3.x]).
So I think we have no actual problem here.
 
> Versioned Provides for such modules are required.

That's a long story:
https://bugs.debian.org/758100
As Niko wrote in #80:

| 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.

(Leaving handling of this bug to Niko/Dom.)


Cheers,
gregor

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