Packages broken by perl 5.12

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Tue May 10 07:52:49 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 07:49:30AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Once a fixed version is in sid, please file a bug against perl to add a
> Breaks: entry for earlier versions of mrtg. Otherwise partial upgrades
> can still trigger the breakage.

Hmm. Should we make this a general recommendation? There are likely
to be other cases of versions in squeeze breaking under perl 5.12
which it would be nice to catch.

Perhaps a d-d-a when the transition is complete would be a good
opportunity to do this.

Dominic.

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