Bug#1076488: src:libxml-libxslt-perl: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest issues

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:55:04 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:

> > This should fix itself once libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-4
> > migrates (and libxml2).
> That's a slight variant of "This is usually a missing
> *versioned* (test) dependency in your reverse (test) dependencies or a
> missing Breaks in this package or both. However, if this is *only* a
> test issue, it's possible that it's considered wrong to declare that in
> the package meta data; in that case reach out to the Release Team to
> ignore the apparent autopkgtest regressions for this case."

Right.
 
> So, should libxml-libxslt-perl have a versioned Depends on
> libxml-libxml-perl? Or vise versa, a versioned Breaks?

We already tightend the dependencies between libxml-libxml-perl and
libxml2 (the warnings are in libxml2, the perl module triggers them);
I guess doing the same dance with all reverse-dependencies of
libxml-libxml-perl for something that appears rarely (cf.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072012#62 ),
wouldn't have shown up without libxml2 being blocked for a long time,
and should hopefully be fixed by the migration of libxml-libxml-perl
and libxml2 is overkill.

So I guess I'd just wait (the new libxml-libxslt-perl version also
has no groundbreaking changes); but I might miss something which
others may add.


Cheers,
gregor

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