Bug#621062: libwww-perl: Please move the remaining modules to a new liblwp-perl

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:12:58AM +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> tag 621062 +wontfix
> thanks
> 
> Adrian,
> 	I think you do us an injustice here.
> 
> 	First of all it is true that HTML::Form and HTTP::Daemon are not
> required by any of the LWP modules. In recognition of this we did
> not include dependencies on libhttp-daemon-perl and
> libhtml-form-perl. Those packages are however recommendations and
> you may wish to turn off the automatic installation of
> recommendations to stop bringing those in.
>...

This actually sounds like a breakage with an RC severity:

Doesn't that break on partial upgrades from squeeze when automatic 
installation of recommendations is disabled in other packages using 
HTML::Form or HTTP::Daemon?

> Nicholas

cu
Adrian

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