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perl uninstalls perl-doc
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Package: perl
Version: 5.8.7-4
Severity: normal
Every once in a while an upgrade of perl unistalls perl-doc. This
really annoys me. From my point of view I'd either package them
onto one package, or completely disconnect them, or I don't care,
but this is very annoying.
1. I don't know why every packager requires the very bleeding edge
of things for his package instead of real dependencies. With this
custom, there is no point to use a package manager that knows about
versions.
2. But because this is done in all debian packages with no reason,
if one installs a package that depends on perl in sid, it will
most probably, almost surely upgrade perl.
3. And remove perl-doc.
4. And I get crazy.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2-amd-adaptec-nfs
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-19 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii perl-base 5.8.7-4 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii perl-modules 5.8.7-4 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii perl-doc 5.8.7-4 Perl documentation
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On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 10:27:53PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:10:24PM +0200, Baldvin Kovacs wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.8.7-4
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Every once in a while an upgrade of perl unistalls perl-doc. This
> > really annoys me. From my point of view I'd either package them
> > onto one package, or completely disconnect them, or I don't care,
> > but this is very annoying.
>
> The perl-doc related dependencies / conflicts should not cause this
> behaviour.
>
> Package: perl
> Conflicts: perl-doc (<< ${Upstream-Version}-1)
>
> Package: perl-doc
> Depends: perl (>= ${Upstream-Version}-1)
>
> I think the package manager should be able to deduce that upgrading
> both packages at the same time (or removing perl-doc only temporarily)
> will satisfy this.
>
> Changing Conflicts to Breaks might be a good idea, though.
>
> There is no chance that the packages will be merged into one, lots
> of people don't want the perl docs on their systems when they install
> a perl program.
>
> Disconnecting them makes it possible for the docs and the programs
> to get out of sync, which is not desirable either.
>
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:56:30AM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > Hello Baldvin, do you encounter the problem nowadays?
>
> No answer yet, so there's no way to know if this is/was apt, aptitude,
> or something else. FWIW #262059 et al. against apt might be a good
> candidate.
>
> Baldvin, I'm going to close this bug soon unless we hear back from you.
It's now "soon" so I'm closing this :)
Cheers,
Dominic.
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