On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Niko Tyni<nt...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:15:17PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> I vote that we fix this "problem" by simply nailing the dependencies >> between perl-base/perl/perl-modules to an exact equivalence. [...] > > I agree with you that this is a cure worse than the disease. Furthermore, > as Adrian stated, it has problems with binNMUs.
There are ways around that, have the perl package provide a name which maps to the debian version less NMUs (either by manually updating debian/control, or an automated process which removes bin NMUs from the version). Another alternative, certainly the simplest, would be to remove perl-modules entirely and have those arch-indep parts included in the perl package. perl could transitionally provide perl-modules. The packages versions of perl/perl-modules were never intended to be disjoint--the split was intended only to reduce redundancy in the archive. Is disk sufficiently cheap theses days that we no longer care? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
