On 2015-04-20 21:32:17 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 02:25:55PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > * by providing two conflicting packages perl-base and > > perl-base-static. > > dpkg cries loudly (and rightly so) if you try to remove an Essential:yes > package like perl-base.
Couldn't perl-base be a metapackage depending on "perl-base-dynamic | perl-base-static"? Anyway the problem has been solved for the init systems, hasn't it? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150421124807.gc18...@xvii.vinc17.org