Bug#725899: perl-base: Needs versioned Conflicts on libscalar-list-utils-perl

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> The "Conflicts" dependency from perl-base to libscalar-list-utils-perl
> needs to be versioned up to the version that comes with perl 5.18.1, as
> currently it's preventing installation of my built package dh-make-perl
> off the later version from CPAN.

The unversioned conflict was added in 
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721364> to solve
an upgrade problem. As Niko says in that bugreport: "So, we may need to
[...] forbid separately packaged versions of modules in perl-base,".

Could you say what you need from a newer libscalar-list-utils-perl
package? Depending on what the issue is, we could consider changes in
perl-base. This bug report can serve to track better solutions to the
problem too; but I don't see an easy fix.

Dominic.