reassign 566080 perl-base 5.10.1-1 retitle 566080 needs to conflict with safe-rm (<< 0.8) severity 566080 normal thanks
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:30:38PM +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > I removed that dependency entirely from safe-rm 0.8 so this shouldn't be a > problem in future perl upgrades. > > That said, you're right, it doesn't actually solve the problem because > unless you upgrade your version of safe-rm before upgrading perl, then > you'll run into this problem. > > On the other hand, I'm not sure what I can do from the safe-rm side (other > than what I've done -- removing the dependency). I'm guessing that something > would need to be done on the perl side but I hesitate to reassign the > bug. Given the difference in the popcon score between perl and safe-rm, I > doubt they will want to add checks in their package to make sure that > safe-rm is at least 0.8. (You didn't actually send a copy to Penny, adding him to the Cc's.) If this affected lenny->squeeze upgrades, perl-base would definitely need a Conflicts entry for earlier versions of safe-rm. I see the unfortunate English.pm dependency was present in versions 0.5-0.7, so this does not seem to be the case as lenny was released with 0.3. However, Ubuntu has apparently made a stable release with safe-rm 0.6-2 (and perl 5.10.0-24ubuntu4), so this is going to hurt their users anyway. I suppose I will just bite the bullet and add the Conflicts entry. I'm taking the liberty of reassign the bug. I'm downgrading the severity though, because this is not critical for Debian. -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
