Bug#1014282: perl: autopkgtest failure: needs Provides/Replaces/Breaks for libtext-balanced-perl

[Niko Tyni]

Source: perl
Version: 5.34.0-4
Severity: serious
Control: block -1 by 1014280

The perl package recently started failing its autopkgtest checks
in testing.

  #   Failed test 'no potential packages for new Provides/Replaces/Breaks found in the archive'
  #   at debian/t/control.t line 303.
  #          got: 'libtext-balanced-perl'
  #     expected: ''
  # Looks like you failed 1 test of 590.
  debian/t/control.t .. 
 
This is because libtext-balanced-perl got introduced in the archive
and we need to add corresponding metadata for it in the perl package.

A complication is that pdl has added an unversioned dependency on
libtext-balanced-perl while it really needs a newer one.  So making the
perl core packages Provide libtext-balanced-perl will break pdl.

I've filed a separate bug about this, and would prefer to have
pdl changed first.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org