On Mon, 05 Sep 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 04 septembre 2011 à 17:30 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : 
> > I would like to see someone sort out what to do about perl and
> > perl-modules before Policy makes it a requirement.
> 
> Is there anything special about this case? It looks to me that the
> perl-modules→perl dependency just needs to be downgraded.

IIRC installing perl-modules without perl breaks a lot of stuff because
the installed modules are not working without the arch-specific part in
perl itself (and vice-versa).

And those modules can be used because the "perl" executable is in
perl-base and not in perl.

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