Bug#693002: Bug#692979: Bug#693002: libimager-perl: breaks libimager-qrcode-perl

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:12 PM, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:46:13 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>
>> > And I'm also not sure that your NMU for libimager-qrcode-perl is
>> > correct; if I understand this correctly, it doesn't need any specific
>> > version of Imager, but just the same at buildtime and runtime, so a
>> > simple binNMU should be enough to fix the current bug. - Of course
>> > that's not a long term solution.
>> I don't think that will satisfy the release team.   They want mixed
>> systems and partial upgrades to always work.
>
> Hm, ok.
>
> But then libimager-qrcode-perl needs to (build) depend on
> libimager-perl >= 0.90, because that is the version where the API
> version was bumped to 5 (and it will be built against 0.93+dfsg-1
> in unstable which also has version 5).

Agreed.  My nmu was wrong about the API 5 package version.

> And since there is no older version of libimager-qrcode-perl (after
> this migrates to testing) as it's not in stable, there can't be any
> partial upgrades; unless I have some thinko right now, which is also
> possible :)

Think about it this way: without versioned depends, there is nothing
to resolve the brokenness for users with squeeeze's libimager-perl
0.75-1 that have somehow installed libimager-qrcode-perl 0.0333-1.

Best wishes,
Mike