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. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110906062041.gk26...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
