Bug#721364: perl: Missing Pre-Depends/Breaks/Conflicts wrt. libscalar-list-utils-perl and the Perl 5.18 transition

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:50:55PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Meanwhile, I don't think this is quite so critical that it warrants a
> hurried upload, as systems with libscalar-list-utils-perl installed are
> probably quite uncommon. The only versioned reverse dependencies are
> 
>  librdf-trine-perl
>  libscalar-does-perl
>  libtest-rdf-perl
> 
> If no good solution is found, I guess we'll need to upload perl with
> an unversioned conflict on libscalar-list-utils-perl, which would
> render the above packages and their reverse dependencies uninstallable.

After sleeping on this and not having come up with anything better,
I'm going ahead with the unversioned conflict. 
 
I see Jonas already uploaded new versions of the above problematic
packages (thanks!), with the dependencies in sid now preferring the new
perl core packages.  So the installability problem should be solved.

I think we need to remove libscalar-list-utils-perl altogether.
I'll file a separate bug on that soon.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org