Bug#589052: FTBFS: cross-dep with libtest-minimumversion-perl and libperl-minimumversion-perl

[Ansgar Burchardt]

forcemerge 589052 589051
severity 589052 normal
retitle 589052 libfile-find-rule-perl-perl: avoid indirect build-dep on itself
thanks

Mounaam <mounaam at gmail.com> writes:

> Severity: serious
> Justification: no longer builds from source

The package from unstable builds fine in unstable. It is not a
release-critical bug if a package from unstable fails to build in
stable.

> can't backport from (testing) source following packages because of cross-dependencies:
> - libtest-minimumversion-perl 0.101080 needs:
>   libperl-minimumversion-perl (>= 1.20)
>   libfile-find-rule-perl-perl
>
> - libperl-minimumversion-perl 1.25 needs:
>   libtest-minimumversion-perl (>= 0.101080)
>   libfile-find-rule-perl-perl (>= 1.04)
>
> - libfile-find-rule-perl-perl 1.09 needs:
>   libperl-minimumversion-perl (>= 1.20)
>   libtest-minimumversion-perl (>= 0.008)

It should work just fine if you remove the build-dep on 
libtest-minimumversion-perl, libperl-minimumversion-perl in
libfile-find-rule-perl-perl.

I still agree that we should avoid (indirect) build-deps on itself.
In this case we can just stop running the author tests (or at least
t/99_pmv.t).

Regards,
Ansgar