Package: perl-modules-5.22 Version: 5.22.1-3 Severity: important Currently, perl-modules-5.22 has an unversioned Provides/Breaks/Replaces against perl-modules. I assume there are two things you're attempting to accomplish with this:
1) Force a smooth upgrade from perl-modules to perl-modules-5.22. 2) Allow for a perl-modules virtual package to exist with future versioned perl-modules-X.XX packages. In both cases, that Breaks should be a Conflicts. 1) The "hint" for complete replacement of A with B for high level dpkg frontends is an unversioned Conflicts/Replaces pair. 2) Virtual packages are defined as a Provides, or Provides/Conflicts if they shouldn't be installed together, or Provides/Conflicts and Replaces if they have file overlaps. A good rule of thumb is that if you have a versioned Conflicts, you probably wanted a Breaks, and if you have an unversioned Breaks, you probably wanted a Conflicts. ... Adam -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers xenial-updates APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-5-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
