On Fri, 01 May 2015 20:28:32 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> > Excellent. So this should be enough in liblog-any-perl?
> > 
> > #v+
> > --- a/debian/control
> > +++ b/debian/control
> > @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Package: liblog-any-perl
> >  Architecture: all
> >  Depends: ${misc:Depends},
> >           ${perl:Depends}
> > +Breaks: liblog-any-adapter-perl
> > +Replaces: liblog-any-adapter-perl
> > +Provides: liblog-any-adapter-perl
> >  Description: Perl module to log messages safely and efficiently
> >   Log::Any allows CPAN modules to safely and efficiently log messages, while
> >   letting the application choose (or decline to choose) a logging mechanism
> > #v-
> 
> I believe so, yes.

Ok ...
 
> ...but even if I believe it technically will work, I suspect unversioned 
> Breaks is unorthodox and might trigger lintian warnings or worse.

lintian doesn't complain but I'm also not really comfortable with it.
 
> To be on the safe side a versioned Breaks should work just as well 
> (since we do not expect a newer liblog-any-adapter-perl to ever emerge) 
> and follow Policy recommendations more closely.

Good point, done now.

Thanks for your help!


Cheers,
gregor


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