Perl Modules Conundrum

[Ming Hua]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:44:05AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Scott Kitterman [2008-01-07 11:41 -0500]:
> 
> > What happens is that sbuild checks to see if it has such a module installed, 
> > determines that it does, because the module is provided by perl-modules.  
> > Later the build will fail due to dependency problems because the version is 
> > insufficient.
> 
> Right, and this is a bug we should fix, since it does not just affect
> Perl. If sbuild sees a versioned dependency, it should not look for
> already available Provides: since these are not versioned. Since this
> does not seem to affect Debian's sbuild, I guess this problem comes
> from our Ubuntu specific changes to build dependency installation
> (which has been tweaked particularly for alternatives IIRC, to avoid
> small b-dep only deltas to Debian). Adam, what do you think?

I don't know if this affects Debian or not, but from my recollection of
the discussion with Scott, both packages he found that is affected by
this problem is arch:all, so they were never built by Debian's buildd.

Ming
2008.01.09