Bug#783899: liblog-any-perl, liblog-any-adapter-perl: File conflict when being installed together

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting gregor herrmann (2015-05-01 18:20:45)
> On Fri, 01 May 2015 16:47:22 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> > > I guess we need:
> > > - a versioned Breaks+Replaces
> > > - a virtual dummy package (which will remove src:liblog-any-adapter-perl)
> > > - and then bugs/fixes in all rdeps (some unfortunately versioned, so
> > >   a Provides wouldn't buy us much):
> > >   https://codesearch.debian.net/results/liblog-any-adapter-perl%20path%3Adebian%2Fcontrol/page_0
> > >   where the fix probably is "liblog-any-perl (>= 1.00) | liblog-any-adapter-perl [(>= 0.11)]"
> > I now update libcatmandu-perl which simplifies dependencies (needs 
> > liblog-any-* 1.03 now).
> > After that I will relax liblog-any-adapter-screencoloredlevel-perl to 
> > have unversioned dependency: 0.11 is satisfied even in oldstable.
> 
> Thanks!
>  
> > If someone does same for liblog-any-adapter-callback-perl 
> 
> Done.
> 
> > I believe no 
> > other versioned build-dependencies are left, and we can have 
> > liblog-any-perl provide liblog-any-adapter-perl.
> 
> Excellent. So this should be enough in liblog-any-perl?
> 
> #v+
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Package: liblog-any-perl
>  Architecture: all
>  Depends: ${misc:Depends},
>           ${perl:Depends}
> +Breaks: liblog-any-adapter-perl
> +Replaces: liblog-any-adapter-perl
> +Provides: liblog-any-adapter-perl
>  Description: Perl module to log messages safely and efficiently
>   Log::Any allows CPAN modules to safely and efficiently log messages, while
>   letting the application choose (or decline to choose) a logging mechanism
> #v-

I believe so, yes.

...but even if I believe it technically will work, I suspect unversioned 
Breaks is unorthodox and might trigger lintian warnings or worse.

To be on the safe side a versioned Breaks should work just as well 
(since we do not expect a newer liblog-any-adapter-perl to ever emerge) 
and follow Policy recommendations more closely.


 - Jonas

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