On 2015-02-15 12:57, Niko Tyni wrote: > (Dropping Sven and Andreas but adding the release team; there's a question > for you lower in the mail.) > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:19:18PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > >> [...] >> Relaxing the circular dependency is a workaround that might be doable, >> even though it would be 'incorrect'. There are modules in perl that >> need others in perl-modules, and vice versa. However, I count only 21 >> binary packages in sid [1] that depend on perl-modules but not perl. >> As perl is transitively build essential (via dpkg-dev and libdpkg-perl), >> build dependencies should not be a concern at all. > > There are a few packages that pull in perl indirectly through their other > dependencies, which brings the count of binary packages that only depend > on perl-modules down to 15: > > [...] > > Release team: if we don't find another solution, would you be willing to > allow changes in these packages replacing > Depends: perl-modules > with > Depends: perl > into jessie? > > [...] >
Yes. Feel free to do this in parallel with trying to find an alternative solution. The sooner we solve this upgrade issue, the better. Thanks, ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
