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

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 20:42:47 +0100
Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:

> 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.

Ah I see.. that is an awkward bug.

I'm upstream maintainer of List::Util (and in fact Socket, which was
also mentioned in the other bug) - so quite often I find it useful to
have the latest version of it installed in order to test that it
doesn't break things, or to use the feature I just added.

I generally prefer to keep everything under dpkg control, rather than
CPANning extra ones in, though for now as a workaround I can do just
that to have a later version installed.

Is there anything I could do upstream to help the situation?

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