On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:43:53PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 09:26:31PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > As discussed in #758100, I'd like to switch to using versioned Provides > > in perl/perl-base/perl-modules-5.xx for buster. I'd be interested to > > hear if anybody knows of any remaining blockers for that. > > [...] > > > My current thinking would be not to couple this change with the future > > Perl 5.26 transition, so I'm planning to push this into sid (= the 5.24 > > packages) soonish. Unless there's a reason not to? > > This is now done in unstable with perl/5.24.1-5.
... and reverted in perl/5.24.1-7, mostly because of #867104 (wanna-build not considering a real and a versioned virtual package with the same name co-installable, leaving several packages at B-D-Uninstallable due to no fault of their own), and partly because of #867081 (autopkgtest problems.) We can revisit this if/when these new blockers are fixed. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
