Bug#788270: libmath-bigint-gmp-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.22 due to dependency on libmath-bigint-perl available

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Tue Jun 9 21:15:44 UTC 2015


Control: tag -1 + pending

On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:03:11 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> Source: libmath-bigint-gmp-perl
> Version: 1.38-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.22-transition
> 
> This package FTBFS with perl 5.22 in experimental:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  sbuild-build-depends-libmath-bigint-gmp-perl-dummy : Depends: libmath-bigint-perl (>= 1.9993)
> 
>  libmath-bigint-perl : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
> 
> The issue is that the separately packaged libmath-bigint-perl is
> uninstallable due to the Breaks in the new perl package. As versioned
> provides are not supported, this package should be updated to just
> Build-Depend on perl (>= 5.20.0), which will provide a suitable version
> of Math::BigInt. Note that this will break backporting, but until
> versioned Provides are fully supported, this is unavoidable.

Already fixed in git:

-               libmath-bigint-perl (>= 1.9993) | perl (>= 5.19.4),
+               perl (>= 5.19.4) | libmath-bigint-perl (>= 1.9993),


Cheers,
gregor, looking at the package closer now

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