Bug#608385: perl: provide libencode-perl

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:39:00PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:01:32PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Filing a bug so I don't forget. The ITP is #608294 .
> > 
> > The main thing is to add Provides: libencode-perl so that any unversioned
> > dependencies don't pull in the separate package unnecessarily.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. I believe I have commit rights on the
> perl git repos - should I just add this myself to
> git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/perl/perl-5.12.git master?

Sure, feel free to go ahead.

If we're going to have a post-release upload of the 5.10 series before
the 5.12 transition, it would be good to include this there as well.
-- 
Niko