Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le dimanche 04 septembre 2011 à 17:30 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>>> I would like to see someone sort out what to do about perl and >>> perl-modules before Policy makes it a requirement. >> Is there anything special about this case? It looks to me that the >> perl-modules→perl dependency just needs to be downgraded. > IIRC installing perl-modules without perl breaks a lot of stuff because > the installed modules are not working without the arch-specific part in > perl itself (and vice-versa). > And those modules can be used because the "perl" executable is in > perl-base and not in perl. Yeah, perl-modules really does depend on perl, in that the package is actively broken and will break other things, not just merely unusable, without it. Note that perl-modules has a ton of Provides, and something depending on one of those provided modules without depending on perl itself is likely to break if only perl-modules gets installed. The problem is that perl and perl-modules really are one package that was split apart solely to get the (large) architecture-independent parts into an arch: all package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vct6xjmo....@windlord.stanford.edu
