Bug#866991: libcpan-meta-perl: uninstallable in unstable

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 06:07:28PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> I see two possibilities:
> - lower the version in the Replaces/Breaks to <= 1.4414-1, as that's
>   the last separateky packaged version un Debian; not as
>   "theoretically clean" as breaking the "real" version but should be
>   safe within the Debian universe and allows us to fix this now;
> - wait a couple of weeks: when perl 5.26 enters unstable this
>   problems fixes itself; but then the version in Breaks/Replaces and
>   Provides is still arbitrary/wrong.
> 
> I tend to prefer the first solution but I'm happy to hear about
> others.

I'd go with lowering the version. The other one is not much of a fix :)

> For convenience, here's the diff which I just pushed to the git repo
> on Alioth (with a slightly different version to also catch
> theoretical 1.4414-1+localsomething versions):

Oh there's versioned Provides here too! The diff looks OK to me fwiw.

We might want to automatically calculate the Provided version from the
main version as it looks like they're synced nowadays.  Otherwise the
Provided version will probably start lagging when people don't notice
it while importing new upstream releases.
-- 
Niko