libio-compress-bzip2-perl: uninstallable with Perl 5.10.1

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Thu Aug 20 21:02:54 UTC 2009


clone 542696 -1
reassign -1 liborlite-mirror-perl 1.16-1
retitle -1 liborlite-mirror-perl: please update dependencies for Perl 5.10.1
block 542696 with -1
thanks

Hello liborlite-mirror-perl maintainer,

please update your dependencies to something like

 Depends: perl (>= 5.10.1) | libio-compress-bzip2-perl (>= 2.008)

to keep the package installable when perl 5.10.1 (currently in
experimental) replaces libio-compress-bzip2-perl.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:21:41PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libio-compress-bzip2-perl
> Version: 2.015-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Perl 5.10.1 RC2 bundles IO::Compress::Bzip2 2.020 as part of IO-Compress.
> 
> This means that the separate libio-compress-bzip2-perl package will become
> uninstallable when perl 5.10.1 enters sid. I'll add
> 
> Provides: libio-compress-bzip2-perl
> Replaces: libio-compress-bzip2-perl
> Conflicts: libio-compress-bzip2-perl (<< 2.020)
> 
> for the next perl experimental upload as I missed those in 5.10.1~rc2-1.
> 
> The uninstallability will also break a versioned reverse dependency:
>  liborlite-mirror-perl: Depends: libio-compress-bzip2-perl (>= 2.008)
> because versioned dependencies are not satisfied by provided packages.
> 
> It seems clear to me that this package should eventually be removed
> because upstream has been integrated into IO-Compress. (See #538214
> for the ITP of libio-compress-perl.)
> 
> Therefore the liborlite-mirror-perl package needs to be changed first
> to read something like
> 
>  Depends: perl (>= 5.10.1) | libio-compress-bzip2-perl (>= 2.008)
> 
> which allows for libcompress-bzip2-perl removal but keeps any Lenny
> backporters happy.
> 
> Please consider this just a heads-up; setting severity to 'wishlist'
> for now, but it's definitely going to get upgraded later. I'll clone a
> bug against liborlite-mirror-perl and mark it as blocking this one.
> -- 
> Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org



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