Bug#632238: libshell-perl: not installable in sid

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:54:58PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:44:36PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:35:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > libshell-perl is not installable in sid on any architecture since May 21
> > > because it conflicts with the current version of perl-modules.
> > 
> > As intended; see also #627211. It's currently of interest to those
> > using perl 5.14 from experimental and has been staged in preparation
> > for an upload of 5.14 to unstable.
> 
> OK, but then it should have been uploaded to experimental, not sid.
> All dependencies of packages in sid must be satisfiable in sid.

I think this is a matter of opinion. It would be practically impossible
to prevent this situation from arising with dual lived modules in
general because of the way we add specific versioned Breaks to perl for
those modules, and I don't see that going to enormous lengths to prevent
the situation benefits anyone. Whilst in this specific case the Breaks
could have been foreseen in advance, and the package could indeed have
been uploaded to experimental, this would just have been one more
complication added to the perl 5.14 transition plans which is not
necessary in my opinion.

It's perfectly okay to file this bug to prevent the uninstallable
package propogating to testing (although in this case there was on
already) but in the context of the development cycle of Debian there
isn't actually anything wrong here.

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