On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:06:24 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > I am perfectly aware that libversion-perl is available only as a virtual > > package in unstable and testing. I deliberately chose to use those > > virtual packages in order to ease backporting to Debian stable. > ftpmasters replied it was a mistake so there's obviously nothing wrong > with that, but I had the impression that it was always safer to provide > a real package as an alternative of a virtual one: I don't see where it > would hurt backporting to use > > libversion-perl | perl-modules (>= 5.10.0-13 -- or whichever version got > the library in)
We've been using "perl-modules (>= 5.10) | libversion-perl" for a few packages in the perl group (i.e. putting the real package before the virtual one). Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- BOFH excuse #48: bad ether in the cables
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