Bug#698764: libio-compress-perl: breaks "debmirror" and possibly other packages.

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Package: libio-compress-perl
Version: 2.055-1
Severity: normal
Control: found -1 2.052-1

When I run "debmirror" it crashed with the following message:

	Compress::Raw::Zlib version 2.052 required--this is only version 2.033 at /usr/share/perl5/Compress/Zlib.pm line 11.
	BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Compress/Zlib.pm line 11.
	Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/debmirror line 537.
	BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/debmirror line 537.

So I upgraded "libcompress-raw-zlib-perl" 2.052-1 to 2.055-1 (from unstable)
but it didn't help (error hasn't change).

It turned out that Compress::Raw::Zlib also provided by perl itself: 

	perl: /usr/lib/perl/5.14.2/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm
	libcompress-raw-zlib-perl: /usr/lib/perl5/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm

and presence of "libio-compress-perl" breaks debmirror because "libio-compress-perl"
tries to load older Compress::Raw::Zlib provided by perl even if recent enough
"libcompress-raw-zlib-perl" is installed.

The problem has gone when I uninstalled "libio-compress-perl".

I'm not sure what's the best way to fix this but it appears that at least
Breaks/Replaces (or Conflicts) are worth considering.

Thanks.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Debian Release: 7.0

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 Dmitry Smirnov
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