clone 721364 -1 retitle -1 libscalar-list-utils-perl: uninstallable because it breaks perl upgrades reassign -1 libscalar-list-utils-perl severity -1 grave thanks
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 06:30:25PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:50:55PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > Meanwhile, I don't think this is quite so critical that it warrants a > > hurried upload, as systems with libscalar-list-utils-perl installed are > > probably quite uncommon. The only versioned reverse dependencies are > > > > librdf-trine-perl > > libscalar-does-perl > > libtest-rdf-perl > > > > If no good solution is found, I guess we'll need to upload perl with > > an unversioned conflict on libscalar-list-utils-perl, which would > > render the above packages and their reverse dependencies uninstallable. > > After sleeping on this and not having come up with anything better, > I'm going ahead with the unversioned conflict. > > I see Jonas already uploaded new versions of the above problematic > packages (thanks!), with the dependencies in sid now preferring the new > perl core packages. So the installability problem should be solved. > > I think we need to remove libscalar-list-utils-perl altogether. > I'll file a separate bug on that soon. I've just uploaded Changes: perl (5.18.1-3) unstable; urgency=low . * Make perl-base conflict with all versions of libscalar-list-utils-perl, which overrides Essential functionality in a way that breaks during upgrades. (Closes: #721364) so libscalar-list-utils-perl will soon be uninstallable. Cloning a bug and raising its severity. I think package removal is in order, but I'm happy to be proved wrong. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org