Bug#542686: libcompress-zlib-perl: uninstallable with Perl 5.10.1, needs to be removed
Niko Tyni
ntyni at debian.org
Thu Aug 20 19:33:12 UTC 2009
Package: libcompress-zlib-perl
Version: 2.015-1
Severity: wishlist
Perl 5.10.1 RC2 bundles Compress::Zlib 2.020 as part of IO-Compress.
This means that the separate libcompress-zlib-perl package will become
uninstallable when perl 5.10.1 enters sid.
The uninstallability will also break versioned reverse dependencies:
filterproxy
libimage-size-perl
libpar-packer-perl
mailscanner
because versioned dependencies are not satisfied by provided packages.
It seems clear to me that this package has to be removed, possibly in
favour of libio-compress-perl if we want to keep that as a separate
package (see #538214).
So the packages listed above need to be changed. All of these versioned
dependencies would be satisfied by Perl 5.10.0 already, so they should
instead be something like
Depends: perl (>= 5.10) | libcompress-zlib-perl (>= X)
which allows for libcompress-zlib-perl removal but keeps any Etch
backporters happy.
I'll clone and reassign the four bugs and mark them as blocking this
one. Setting the severity to 'wishlist' for now, but it's definitely
going to upgraded later.
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Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
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