Bug#808390: perl-base: Does not provide perl5-base anymore breaking unrelated software
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Dec 19 14:23:51 UTC 2015
On 2015-12-19 13:48:17 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> New version seems to not provide perl5-base anymore. That breaks
> unrelated software by deinstalling them when upgrading perl.
>
> Package where I seen that problem is geneweb. Until that is fixed, I am
> not able to update my system to new perl version.
This doesn't seem to be a bug in perl-base. The changelog says:
[...]
* Various cleanups to dependency fields
- we no longer provide the perl5, perl5-base, and data-dumper virtual
packages
[...]
So, the remove of perl5-base has been done on purpose, and packages
that depend on it need to be fixed.
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