Perl modules in Ubuntu that do not adhere to Debian's naming policy

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 01:47:34AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> Ubuntu includes several Perl module packages that do not adhere Debian's
> naming policy[1].  Once Debian includes these modules in a differently
> named package, there are problems if one tries to install both packages
> at the same time.  See [2] or [3] for examples.

> It is cumbersome to solve these bugs: to correctly address these issues,
> one would have to add an "Replaces: <old-package>", creating an
> unnecessary diversion from Debian.

> To avoid these problems, Ubuntu should rename the packages not yet
> adhering to the naming policy.  I do not know which packages in Ubuntu
> are affected by this though.

Do you have a proposal for how to identify these packages?  Ubuntu packages
are also expected to comply with this part of Debian policy, so this doesn't
change anything unless we can automatically identify the ones that don't.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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