Bug#464302: libmodule-load-conditional-perl: FTBFS: perl-modules: non-matching version installed (5.8.8-12 ! >> 5.10)

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:34:52 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > Thinking a bit more I think we could just write libversion-perl,
> > because perl-modules 5.10 (since -3) provides libversion-perl.
> > Dropping the version on the dependecy would mean that we have a
> > problem in stable ...
> I don't think there's a problem even with stable.
> The distribution specifies version.pm >= 0.69, but judging by
> t/02_Parse_Version.t and
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-01/msg00805.html 
> the problem is only with pureperl installations of version.pm, while we
> have an XS one.

Cool, thanks for your research!

> Conclusion: as perl-modules Build-Essential:yes, an unversioned
> *build*-dependency on just libversion-perl should work "everywhere".
> I'm not quite as sure about the runtime dependency, but it seems that
> Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), libversion-perl
> works at least in 'apt-get install libsmart-comments-perl',
> as it drags perl-modules with it in the 5.10 case.

Sounds reasonable.

I've commited the fix to our svn repo.

Cheers,
gregor 
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