]] Russ Allbery | Yeah, perl-modules really does depend on perl, in that the package is | actively broken and will break other things, not just merely unusable, | without it. Note that perl-modules has a ton of Provides, and something | depending on one of those provided modules without depending on perl | itself is likely to break if only perl-modules gets installed.
The description of the perl-modules package is Note that this package only exists to save archive space and should be considered an internal implementation detail of the `perl' package. Other packages should not depend on `perl-modules' directly, they should use `perl' (which depends on `perl-modules') instead. Given this, is there any reason those provides are in the perl-modules package rather than the perl packages itself? (yes, it's technically a lie, but apart from that.) It sounds to me like perl should have a strict (= ${Source:version}) dependency on perl-modules and nothing should ever depend on perl-modules, but I don't know if this has been considered and what the possible downsides are? Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- 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/87wrdmw48n....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com