Bug#542686: libcompress-zlib-perl: uninstallable with Perl 5.10.1, needs to be removed

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:49:42 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > > 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).
> > Right, libio-compress-perl is basically ready in our svn repo, I just
> > hoped that someone would make a short sanity check before I upload.
> I had a quick glance at one point and it seemed OK. 

Cool, thanks!

> However, a separate
> 2.020 is going to be obsoleted very soon by perl 5.10.1 so it might not
> be worth it before 2.021.

But it would help us to get rid of the four other packages, which
would make things easier, no?
 
> I did add the conflicts/replaces/provides dance for libio-compress-perl
> in the experimental perl package though, so it should be OK.

Good.
 
> > > 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)
> > Not 5.10.1?
> I checked and they're all below 2.008, so 5.10.0 is enough.

Ah, ok.

Cheers,
gregor 
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