On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:39:29 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> Maybe this leads to a rule like:
>   If maintainer scripts (including triggers!) use some module
>   from perl-modules, the package needs to depend on perl-modules.
>   An indirect dependency through perl is not sufficient.

This sounds error-prone to me, as maintainers would have to find out
which package contains the module, and track this information when
modules are moved. I guess Niko's idea of adding a Breaks on the old
perl to perl-base and perl-modules is both less work and more
reliable.

Cheers,
gregor

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