On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:01:50PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > perl-modules from Squeeze also contains 1.16, just like libdigest-perl. > What's the purpose of this package, then? > > Wouldn't it rather make sense to drop standalone packages for all > modules present in perl-modules?
Where the version is the same or lower than that provided by perl-modules (or perl), yes. In most cases I think these get caught in unstable, although that might not have happened so much in squeeze and before. The plan is to keep such redundant packages out of testing, certainly. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
