Bug#621135: libwww-perl: Breaks partial upgrades from squeeze

[Nicholas Bamber]

severity 621135 severe
tag 621135 confirmed
thanks

Adrian,
	It came up in our analysis that gsutil would be broken by this change. 
We raised #620478 to alert the package owner and it has now been raised 
to severe. If the package owner does not fix the bug it may well be 
NMU'ed in due course so a fix will get into sid.

	The split up of the libwww-perl is an upstream change that was done at 
the request of the user base. I do not know the exact reasons for the 
split, but presumably they revolve around greater granularity. We 
specifically chose to push through the split NOW, because we are at the 
beginning 	of a release cycle so there is plenty of time for any issues 
arising out of the change to be dealt with.

	We will add the necessary versioned breaks clauses.

Nicholas

On 06/04/11 19:45, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: libwww-perl
> Version: 6.01-2
> Severity: serious
>
> This is the continuation of a discussion in #621062:
>
> Installation of recommendations is the default, but not mandatory
> and not an excuse for missing dependencies.
>
> HTML::Form are HTTP::Daemon part of libwww-perl in squezze, but not
> anymore in sid, and are currently only recommended by libwww-perl.
>
> E.g. gsutil needs HTML::Form.
>
> Consider someone e.g. upgrades libwww-perl without upgrading gsutil
> (or think what happens if someone adds the new libwww-perl to backports,
>   or if the new libwww-perl moves into testing before all of the fixed
>   packages have migrated to testing).
>
> Your options are:
> 1. turn the Recommends into Depends until the release of wheezy or
> 2. add Breaks on the unfixed versions of all packages that need
>     HTML::Form or HTTP::Daemon to libwww-perl or
> 3. move the remaining modules from libwww-perl into a new package
>     named e.g. liblwp-perl and make libwww-perl a transitional package
>
>
>
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