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and subject line Re: Bug#912684: perl-modules-5.28 needs versioned Provides for
modules it bundles
has caused the Debian Bug report #912684,
regarding perl-modules-5.28 needs versioned Provides for modules it bundles
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Package: perl-modules-5.28
Version: 5.28.0-3
Severity: serious
perl-modules-5.28 has
Replaces+Breaks: libextutils-parsexs-perl (<< 3.390000)
This makes libextutils-parsexs-perl in unstable not installable.
libextutils-parsexs-perl does have reverse dependencies
in unstable, including revers dependencies with versioned
dependencies.
Versioned Provides for such modules are required.
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 03:23:07AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:03:43 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > libextutils-parsexs-perl does have reverse dependencies
> > in unstable, including revers dependencies with versioned
> > dependencies.
>
> I checked all reverse (build) dependencies and didn't see any
> problems; all of them are either unversioned or have the form "perl
> (>= 5.x) | libextutils-parsexs-perl [(>= 3.x]).
> So I think we have no actual problem here.
Indeed. This is standard practice and predates versioned Provides
support in dpkg and apt.
> > Versioned Provides for such modules are required.
Versioned Provides are not even in policy yet (tracked as #761219).
Not using them at this stage is certainly not a release critical bug.
> That's a long story:
> https://bugs.debian.org/758100
Right. We do want to move to using versioned Provides at some point,
as it would simplify things. Not sure if that will happen for buster or
bullseye yet.
Closing this.
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Niko
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