Bug#329008: Every once-in a while an upgrade involving perl uninstalls perl-doc

[Niko Tyni]

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On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:10:24PM +0200, Baldvin Kovacs wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.8.7-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Every once in a while an upgrade of perl unistalls perl-doc. This
> really annoys me. From my point of view I'd either package them
> onto one package, or completely disconnect them, or I don't care,
> but this is very annoying. 

The perl-doc related dependencies / conflicts should not cause this
behaviour.

 Package: perl
 Conflicts: perl-doc (<< ${Upstream-Version}-1)

 Package: perl-doc
 Depends: perl (>= ${Upstream-Version}-1)

I think the package manager should be able to deduce that upgrading
both packages at the same time (or removing perl-doc only temporarily)
will satisfy this.

Changing Conflicts to Breaks might be a good idea, though.

There is no chance that the packages will be merged into one, lots
of people don't want the perl docs on their systems when they install
a perl program.

Disconnecting them makes it possible for the docs and the programs
to get out of sync, which is not desirable either.

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:56:30AM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Hello Baldvin, do you encounter the problem nowadays?

No answer yet, so there's no way to know if this is/was apt, aptitude,
or something else. FWIW #262059 et al. against apt might be a good
candidate.

Baldvin, I'm going to close this bug soon unless we hear back from you.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org