Package: libdpkg-perl
Version: 1.15.8
Severity: serious
Tags: patch

Installing and then removing libdpkg-perl will break dpkg versions
before 1.15.8, because update-alternatives and dpkg-divert require
Dpkg.pm which will be lost in that scenario.

This needs to be reflected in debian/control:

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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index be22622..510706b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4), perl, libtimedate-perl, ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: bzip2, xz-utils
 Suggests: debian-keyring, gnupg, gpgv, binutils, patch
-Breaks: dpkg-dev (<< 1.15.6)
+Breaks: dpkg (<< 1.15.8), dpkg-dev (<< 1.15.6)
 Replaces: dpkg (<< 1.15.8), dpkg-dev (<< 1.15.6)
 Description: Dpkg perl modules
  This package provides the perl modules used by the scripts
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc6-nouveau+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libdpkg-perl depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.15.7.2   Debian package management system
ii  libtimedate-perl              1.2000-1   collection of modules to manipulat
ii  perl                          5.10.1-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages libdpkg-perl recommends:
ii  bzip2             1.0.5-4                high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  xz-utils          4.999.9beta+20100713-1 XZ-format compression utilities

Versions of packages libdpkg-perl suggests:
ii  binutils                      2.20.1-12  The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  debian-keyring                2010.06.08 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-4   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  gpgv                          1.4.10-4   GNU privacy guard - signature veri
ii  patch                         2.6-2      Apply a diff file to an original

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