Bug#838855: perl: no longer provides perl-modules, ~35 reverse dependencies still in the archive

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perl-modules-5.24
Version: 5.24.1~rc3-2
Severity: serious

It looks like we stopped Providing perl-modules in 5.24 but missed
transitioning its reverse dependencies.

As stated in the commit message of
 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/perl/perl.git/commit/?id=eae8645a080c81093fd4a5479c9889cbb9a8a13f
"This will need changing ~35 packages in unstable to drop build and
runtime dependencies on perl-modules." Unfortunately we seem to have
forgotten to actually push that through.

According to the same commit message, the reason for dropping
the Provides entry was coinstallability between perl-modules-5.22
and perl-modules-5.24. At the time perl-modules-5.22 conflicted
unconditionally with perl-modules, but this was later changed to a
versioned conflict (see #821161).

I think we should be able to simply reinstate the Provides without
other changes, but will to do some testing to confirm.

Currently affected packages:

 apt-mirror
 cd-circleprint
 chronicle
 conmux
 debian-builder
 dhelp
 dirvish
 dl10n
 ecaccess
 fig2ps
 git
 iwatch
 kanla
 libfinance-yahooquote-perl
 libmime-lite-html-perl
 libtk-tablematrix-perl
 libyaml-shell-perl
 nuxwdog
 oar-restful-api
 ogamesim-www
 parallel
 po4a
 pod2pdf
 ps-watcher
 qdbm
 rcconf
 rt-extension-calendar
 rt-extension-spawnlinkedticketinqueue
 sitesummary
 sitesummary-client
 tightvnc
 wakeonlan
 yample

Related to this, these have a preferred alternative build dependency
on perl-modules-5.22 which is broken too:

 libgraphics-colornames-perl
 libgraphics-colorobject-perl
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org