Bug#771153: init-system-helpers: Please do not depend on new perl

[Stepan Golosunov]

19.01.2016 в 00:38:19 +0100 Michael Biebl написал:
> Am 27.11.2014 um 07:08 schrieb Stepan Golosunov:
> > Package: init-system-helpers
> > Version: 1.22
> > 
> > init-system-helpers 1.22 introduced a versioned Depends: on
> > perl-base. This needlessly complicates upgrades and backports by
> > forcing perl and its reverse dependencies to be upgraded when
> > installing init-system-helpers and its reverse dependencies.
> > 
> > 
> > Please change
> > 
> > Depends: perl-base (>= 5.20.1-3)
> > 
> > into
> > 
> > Depends: perl-base (>= 5.20.1-3) | perl
> > 
> > to allow this dependency to be satisfied by perl from wheezy.
> 
> Jessie has been released for a while and we didn't receive any bug
> reports related to upgrade problems.
> 
> In you initial bug report you wrote that this would complicate upgrades.
> Apparently this didn't really happen, so I guess this bug can be closed
> now. Or do you still see value in keeping this bug report open (and if
> so, why).

It does complicate upgrades, but probably not too much.
At this stage it's probably not worth fixing, so it probably can be
closed.