Bug#839026: perl: maintainer test to check for uninstallable dual life module packages

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:58:40PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:36:35 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > However, any versioned dependencies on these packages must first
> > be changed, at least as long as we don't use versioned Provides (see
> > #758100).
> 
> I think that's the keyword -- versioned Provides would help us in
> src:perl and in all the rdeps.
> 
> Looking at #758100 I see that the last mail (from you) mentions
> #786803 as a (the last?) blocker. And #786803 was closed in April by
> Niels with "The patch series has been merged and pushed live".
> 
> So maybe (I can't really believe it) we already have working
> versioned Provides since almost half a year without noticing it?
> 
> Needs to be checked and tested and everything but it would be could
> and would propbably obsolete the test you proposed here.

Thanks. You're probably right. I'll just note that fixing #758100 is
definitely post-stretch material at this point - but so is the next
major Perl transition. 

It somewhat seems to follow that the maintainer test I'm envisioning
here is outdated from day one :)
-- 
Niko