On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:08:52AM +0400, Stepan Golosunov wrote: > 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.
> Depends: perl-base (>= 5.20.1-3) | perl I'm not an init-system-helpers maintainer, just noting that I suspect there's some risk of breakage with this during upgrades when perl is not in a configured state. I don't think this risk is any worse with the above alternative dependency than with init-system-helpers/1.21 which only depends on perl, but at least libvirt-daemon-system has recently started using deb-systemd-helper in a preinst script partly based on perceived robustness of the perl-base dependency. See #769551, particularly https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769551#56 I'd suggest at least a debian-devel discussion before implementing this. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
