Hi there, On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 01:32:31PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > […] > > I've filed bug #665335 against the mono package in Debian, about the fact > > that a script which is called whenever a -cil package is removed has a > > spurious dependency on perl-modules, making upgrades brittle across new > > upstream versions of perl. > > > > Once this bug is fixed in mono (speculatively in version 2.10.8.1-3), I > > think the right course of action is for perl to conflict with the old > > versions of mono-gac to ensure mono-gac gets upgraded before any of the perl > > packages are unpacked. The attached patch should do this. > > Thanks. Looks right to me, we've added similar conflicts in the past. > > It's probably unnecessary for 'perl' itself to have this conflict, 'perl-base' > and 'perl-modules' should be enough AFAICS as File::Basename doesn't need > anything from 'perl'. It shouldn't hurt though.
I just uploaded -3, so you should be good to go for this once it's built/installed everywhere. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ] PhD student [ i...@cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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