Bug#687211: IPv6 recommends should be the preferred alternative

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:57:20 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

> > 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.
> Yes upstream has the following order in IO:Socket::SSL:
> ----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----
> 80     # try IO::Socket::IP or IO::Socket::INET6 for IPv6 support

> So it first checks for IO::Socket::IP and then vor IO::socket::INET6
> if the first one does not succeed. I would thus think it's correct to
> leave libio-socket-ip-perl (>= 0.11) | libio-socket-inet6-perl.

Ack, that was my conclusion too.
 
> > Salvatore, do you still remember the reason for c622141?

> > Ah, I think libio-socket-ip-perl was too old (i.e. 0.11 not yet
> > uploaded) at the time of the change?
> I'm not anymore 100% sure, but yes I think you are correct. 

Ok :)

> At first glance it seems okay for me to now also change the
> Build-Depends-Indep ordering.

I think so, too.

Thanks!


Cheers,
gregor

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