Bug#779433: perl-modules: upgrade to perl-modules 5.20.2-1 breaks doc-base reconfiguration

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Sat Feb 28 17:53:41 UTC 2015


severity 779433 serious
thanks

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:39:22AM -0500, Frédéric Brière wrote:
> severity 779433 important
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 08:17:24AM -0600, Brian Paterni wrote:
> > The 'PerlIO.pm' module it's looking for is installed to
> > '/usr/share/perl/5.20.2/PerlIO.pm'. However '/usr/share/perl/5.20.2' does not
> > seem to be a part of the @INC list.
> 
> I was wondering why logcheck had suddenly stopped working this morning.
> Thanks!
> 
> Looks like dropping the (versioned) perl-modules->perl Depends (to fix
> #777597) now allows for incompatible versions to be installed.  I guess
> perl-modules should now Break: perl (<< ${Upstream-Version}-1)?

Yeah, that sounds about right to me (though << ${Upstream-Version}~
might work a bit better in the long run.)

Marking this as RC to make sure it doesn't end up in jessie
accidentally.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org




More information about the Perl-maintainers mailing list