Bug#1080359: libtest-simple-perl: uninstallable with Perl 5.40 due to Breaking libtest2-suite-perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:03:49 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > Another option might be to build a binary package libtest2-suite-perl
> > from src:libtest-simple-perl, then we could drop the Replaces/Breaks
> > in bin:libtest-simple-perl. Also ugly but also needed for only ~1
> > year.
> Yes, I think this would work. It's not too ugly but feels rather overkill
> to me. The downsides of dropping Provides seem the lesser evil here.

Ack, dropping the Provides seems to be the least evil and least
complicated way out indeed.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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