Bug#665384: perl: Please conflict with versions of mono-gac that use perl-modules

[Iain Lane]

Hi there,

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 01:32:31PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> […]  
> > I've filed bug #665335 against the mono package in Debian, about the fact
> > that a script which is called whenever a -cil package is removed has a
> > spurious dependency on perl-modules, making upgrades brittle across new
> > upstream versions of perl.
> > 
> > Once this bug is fixed in mono (speculatively in version 2.10.8.1-3), I
> > think the right course of action is for perl to conflict with the old
> > versions of mono-gac to ensure mono-gac gets upgraded before any of the perl
> > packages are unpacked.  The attached patch should do this.
> 
> Thanks. Looks right to me, we've added similar conflicts in the past.
> 
> It's probably unnecessary for 'perl' itself to have this conflict, 'perl-base'
> and 'perl-modules' should be enough AFAICS as File::Basename doesn't need
> anything from 'perl'. It shouldn't hurt though.

I just uploaded -3, so you should be good to go for this once it's
built/installed everywhere.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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