Bug#627753: liblwp-protocol-https-perl has circular Depends on libwww-perl

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:12:29AM +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> The only way we could resolve this is to make libwww-perl not depend on
> liblwp-protocol-https-perl and to get all packages that use
> LWP::protocol::https to depend on liblwp-protocol-https-perl explicitly.
> We considered that at the time but tracking down dependencies on
> liblwp-protocol-https-perl will be hard since the LWP::protocol::https
> module might not be referred to explicitly.
> 
> There are over 300 dependencies on libwww-perl. We can grep the source
> code of those packages for references to 'https'. However even then
> there may be a dependency, may be not a Depends, but at least a
> Recommends, that we miss.

Or you can merge liblwp-protocol-https-perl inside libwww-perl.

Cheers,
Bill.