-=| Jeff, 15.10.2020 08:03:49 +0200 |=-
> Apologies for being (slightly) off-topic:
>
> gscan2pdf-2.9.1 has a new depends on liblocale-codes-perl:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/gscan2pdf
>
> but for (maybe only some) users upgrading from 2.9.0, apt doesn't seem
> to be pulling in liblocale-codes-perl. I've had four or five reports
> similar to this:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972218
>
> Can anyone show me where my bug is hiding?
My clue was the list of dependencies in the reportbug boilerplate of
#972218:
…
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii perl-modules-5.24 [liblocale-codes-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u5
ii sane-utils 1.0.31-2
liblocale-codes-perl is provided by perl-modules-5.24. That's
oldstable and perhaps an *unused* leftover from an upgrade.
My guess was that gscan2pdf misses a dependency on `perl' (missing in
the reportbug's list). perl would bring suitable perl-modules-x.yy
package that is actually in the search path (@INC) and provides
Locale::Language.
However, libtry-tiny-perl has a dependency on `perl', so while I still
think that gscan2pdf needs to depend on `perl', I don't understand how
missing that would lead to the situation in the bug report.
Confused,
dam
