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

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:37:42 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > 	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?

Yes, and that's why we (actually: Nicholas) have (has) filed bugs
against the affected packages, half of them are fixed already and we
will follow up on the others shortly.

Cheers,
gregor

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