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

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:30:25 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

@David, Leon:
The full story is at http://bugs.debian.org/721450

> > 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.

Next one: CPAN-Meta 2.133380 now wants List::Util: 1.33 (which is in
core in 5.19.5).

Nothing in the changelog; the repo has:
https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/CPAN-Meta/commit/7cee4f07a30eb94eecb79a25e2f3277c4357e29d

Cheers,
gregor, cc'ing upstream

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