On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 09:34:21PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > On 18/06/17 19:26, Niko Tyni wrote: > > [bcc'd -release as a heads-up, but I guess this should stay on -devel] > > > > Hi, and thanks to everybody who contributed to the stretch release! > > > > As discussed in #758100, I'd like to switch to using versioned Provides > > in perl/perl-base/perl-modules-5.xx for buster. I'd be interested to > > hear if anybody knows of any remaining blockers for that.
> One thing I did notice recently was #864906 in apt-cudf where versioned > provides broke the acuspd resolver slightly. I guess this will only > affect experimental builds though (where that resolver is used). Interesting. Thanks for the note, and sorry about the breakage :) I agree it looks specific to experimental, and I'd expect it to go away if/when the perl packages switch to versioned Provides in unstable as well. Could be wrong though... -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org