Bug#758100: perl: adopt versioned provides

[Niko Tyni]

Control: block -1 with 786671

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 01:54:20PM -0700, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:58:55PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:10:34PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > > On 08/14/2014 11:18, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > > dpkg (1.17.11) unstable; urgency=low
> > > > [...]
> > > > * Add versioned Provides support:
> > 
> > > > Assuming dpkg in wheezy already accepts the versioned provides when
> > > > parsing, I suppose we could put them in the perl package straight away
> > > > and start cleaning the dependencies after jessie.

> So it looks like we might be able to start using this after jessie.

Another update: there was a discussion about this on -devel recently,
see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/04/msg00246.html

Apparently dose3 needs to be updated so that wanna-build can gain
support for versioned dependencies. I've filed #786671 about this.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org