Bug#480727: libmodule-build-perl: the current version is also in the perl core

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Mon May 12 01:33:48 UTC 2008


gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:

> Fixed but not uploaded:
> E: libsvn-notify-mirror-perl source: missing-build-dependency libmodule-build-perl
>
> $ grep Build-Depends: debian/control 
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.2805), quilt (>= 0.40)
>
> Looks more like a lintian problem to me, but I feel a bit uneasy
> about ignoring/overriding lintian _errors_.

lintian's logic needs the same correction that the package build
dependencies need (since it was in there for the same reason).  It
probably needs to allow a versioned dependency on perl as well, since perl
will pull in perl-modules.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>





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