Bug#758100: perl: adopt versioned provides

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 01:58:01PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

That should have read versioned provides, of course.

The symfony package now has versioned provides in unstable.  It's arch:all
so the wanna-build part isn't a problem for them, but apparently testing
migration needs changes too. See #786803.

php-symfony-framework-bundle/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: php-symfony-security-core (>= 2.6)

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