Bug#536384: perl-modules must depend on perl-base (= 5.10.0-24) or ship the changelog.Debian.gz

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:02:36PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> found 536384 5.10.0-23
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:23:02PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Package: perl-modules
> > Version: 5.10.0-24
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > /usr/share/doc/perl-modules is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/perl,
> > and /usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz is shipped in the
> > perl-base package.
> 
> > "the Debian source tree" of perl-modules 5.10.0-24 is hardly the
> > 5.10.0-1 or 5.10.0-30 perl source tree.
> 
> Yes, I see. Thanks for the report. There are similar problems with
> debian/copyright, and the perl-doc package (but not libcgi-fast-perl)
> is also affected.
> 
> The loose dependencies are intentional so that perl-modules stays
> installable when the arch-specific builds aren't ready yet,
> so I suppose the symlinks need to be replaced with real directories.
> 
> (As noted in #522827, that's going to need some preinst trickery
> because dpkg doesn't replace symlinks. If somebody has better ideas,
> please speak up.)

Your preinst suggestion was not working?

cu
Adrian

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