Bug#535835: libdevel-nytprof-perl: FTBFS: libtest-simple-perl is a virtual package

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sun Jul 5 15:33:05 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:09:06PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> So if I see it corrctly, perl-modules should not stop "providing" 
> libtest-simple-perl. Thus my question, could the problem be related to
> how sbuild resolves the dependencies (since, cowbuilder/pbuilder seem
> to do it right?)

You could argue that sbuild does the wrong thing, but why should
it install something when libtest-simple-perl is already
provided by some other package?

I suggest you reassign this to perl-modules.


Kurt






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