On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:58:40PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:36:35 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > However, any versioned dependencies on these packages must first > > be changed, at least as long as we don't use versioned Provides (see > > #758100). > > I think that's the keyword -- versioned Provides would help us in > src:perl and in all the rdeps. > > Looking at #758100 I see that the last mail (from you) mentions > #786803 as a (the last?) blocker. And #786803 was closed in April by > Niels with "The patch series has been merged and pushed live". > > So maybe (I can't really believe it) we already have working > versioned Provides since almost half a year without noticing it? > > Needs to be checked and tested and everything but it would be could > and would propbably obsolete the test you proposed here.
Thanks. You're probably right. I'll just note that fixing #758100 is definitely post-stretch material at this point - but so is the next major Perl transition. It somewhat seems to follow that the maintainer test I'm envisioning here is outdated from day one :) -- Niko
