On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:22:49PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.10.1-7 > > Not sure why I haven't noticed this earlier, but I see we have the > dual-lived PathTools in the archive as libfile-spec-perl. It's at 3.31 > while perl 5.10.1 has 3.30. > > The changes from 3.30 don't look very important for Debian, so a valid > option would be to drop the separate package altogether from squeeze. > In any case, perl should have the usual conflicts+replaces+provides list.
I'm not adding these for 5.10.1-8 because there's a slight complication: part of the upstream PathTools distribution is in perl-base (Cwd, File::Spec, File::Spec::Unix) and the rest is in perl-modules (File::Spec::VMS and the like.) I suppose perl-modules should therefore be the one that Provides and Replaces libfile-spec-perl because the functionality isn't complete with just perl-base. OTOH, I think perl-base should conflict with any older libfile-spec-perl packages, otherwise an older Cwd from libfile-spec-perl will override a newer one in perl-base. This would read Package: perl-base Conflicts: libfile-spec-perl (<< 3.30) Package: perl-modules Conflicts: libfile-spec-perl (<< 3.30) Provides: libfile-spec-perl Replaces: libfile-spec-perl but I'm not quite confident this will do the right thing on upgrades, so I'll need to test that properly first. Input welcome, -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
