Bug#863479: perl-base should add Breaks: debconf (<< 1.5.57~)

[Julien Cristau]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 16:36:50 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Package: perl-base
> Version: 5.24.1-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Technically #786705 is just a harmless warning, but when
> during a jessie -> stretch upgrade perl-base is upgraded
> before debconf is upgraded the user might see a lot scary
> warnings as if something was seriously broken.
> 
[...]
> 
> perl-base should add a Breaks: debconf (<< 1.5.57~).

Adding Breaks in a core package a couple of weeks before the release
sounds like a very, very, very bad idea.

Cheers,
Julien