Bug#687211: IPv6 recommends should be the preferred alternative

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:53:41 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:

> the alternatives for the build dependencies default to the ipv6 variants, while
> the recommends default to ipv4.  this looks inconsistent. should the recommends
> default to ipv6 too?

I guess (there are several alternatives with ipv6 involved) that
refers to:

Build-Depends-Indep: libio-socket-inet6-perl | libio-socket-ip-perl (>= 0.11), 
Recommends: libio-socket-ip-perl (>= 0.11) | libio-socket-inet6-perl,

In my understanding, libio-socket-ip-perl is newer, preferred by
upstream, and supports both IPv4 and IPv6. So the Recommends makes
more sense to me than the B-D-I.

Not sure about the difference between build and runtime deps; those
lines changed several lines in the recent git historiy :)

Salvatore, do you still remember the reason for c622141?

| Interchange build-dependency for libio-socket-inet6-perl
|
| -Build-Depends-Indep: libio-socket-ip-perl (>= 0.11) | libio-socket-inet6-perl,
| +Build-Depends-Indep: libio-socket-inet6-perl | libio-socket-ip-perl (>= 0.11),


Ah, I think libio-socket-ip-perl was too old (i.e. 0.11 not yet
uploaded) at the time of the change?


Cheers,
gregor

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