Bug#961147: libcolor-calc-perl: broken by new libgraphics-colornames-perl

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Wed May 20 20:22:31 BST 2020


Package: libcolor-calc-perl
Version: 1.074-2
Severity: grave
Tags: bullseye sid
X-Debbugs-Cc: libgraphics-colornames-perl at packages.debian.org

Color::Calc uses Graphics::ColorNames::HTML, which was recently dropped
from the libgraphics-colornames-perl package in Debian.

Graphics::ColorNames::HTML is now available separately on CPAN, with a
deprecation notice pointing users to Graphics::ColorNames::WWW (packaged
in Debian as libgraphics-colornames-www-perl) instead.

So Color::Calc needs to adapt, or Graphics::ColorNames::HTML needs to be
packaged separately despite the deprecation.

Also, libgraphics-colornames-perl should add a Breaks entry for the
versions of libcolor-calc-perl it broke.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org



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