[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#921495: libbio-perl-perl: Package not upgradable, file conflicts.

[Carnë Draug]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 14:06, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:18:26PM +0000, Carnė Draug wrote:
> > I guess the fix for this is to have in bioperl's d/control:
> >
> >     Breaks: libbio-perl-run-perl (<< 1.7.3)
> >
> > It would be nice if upstream did a new release of bioperl-run soon
> > without those modules.  I have prepared the upstream repository and
> > have requested them to make a release but I don't know when it will
> > happen.
> >
> > Alternatively, you could remove those files in Debian and have a
> > bioperl-run version 1.7.2-4.
>
> This is what I've though about: Removing the files from bioperl-run
> (which would be 1.7.2-5 then)

Upstream has released BioPerl-Run 1.7.3 which fixes this conflict
issue.  If someone could prepare that release that would be nice.

Like BioPerl 1.7.3, this new release of BioPerl-Run removed multiple
modules and so, probably not suitable for migration to Buster during
this transition freeze period.