On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:25:06PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > >it could be "fixed" by introducing a versioned pre-dependency of > >perl-modules on perl-base while letting perl-base conflict with too old > >perl-modules, which forces apt to update both packages together; this > >combination may be highly unstable (conflicts+pre-depends is a loop-like > >construct), but results in the right behaviour. > > Given an alternate option I'd really rather not do this. It seems > fragile at best, disasterous at worst.
thats what I also said in the comments... > Given the recent freeze announcement, I'd suggest that regardless of > what other fixes are made, a good first step would be to get a fixed > doc-base (i.e. one that works with the current stable perl-base only) > package into stable-proposed-updates *now*. won't help: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:48:00 +0200 To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: woody-to-sarge test upgrade From: Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> seems like he's been bitten by this bug in connection with defoma > If nothing else, this reduces the size of the problem if there's a point > release prior to sarge. maybe, maybe not: perl itself is in an unusable state during the update... -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
