On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:13:11 +0000 Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:06:45AM +0100, Cyrille Bollu wrote: > > From its debian/control file: > > > > >This module is already included as part of Perl's core distribution, so > > this > > > package is only beneficial when newer features or bug fixes are required. > > > > I don't understand how.... > > The perl package provides the same package via a Provides entry: > libextutils-parsexs-perl (= 3.390000). This is newer than the version > in the separate package (against which this bug is filed) so this > package will never be selected for installation. > > This could change if a newer version is uploaded, but until then, > the separate package should not be released. > > Dominic. >
Ok but I don't see how this bug differs from #915550 and #915876 for both of which the intent seems to remove the corresponding packages. Shouldn't this package also be considered for removal? Cyrille
