On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 15:54 +0200, Stratos Zolotas wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:20 PM Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

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Hi,

attempting to upgrade perl (5.32.0 -> 5.32.1) from the current TW snapshot 20210320 creates some requirement issues:

I can confirm I had the same issue. Had to remove alien, dh-autoreconf and debhelper to continue upgrading to the snapshot.

I created a possible fix, submitted to the devel project, waiting for the maintainer: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/880522 Cheers, Dominique

Am 31.03.21 um 07:48 schrieb L A Walsh:

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Hi,

attempting to upgrade perl (5.32.0 -> 5.32.1) from the current TW snapshot 20210320 creates some requirement issues:

3 Problems: Problem: dh-autoreconf-19-1.1.noarch requires perl = 5.32.0, but this requirement cannot be provided Problem: perl-5.32.0-2.3.x86_64 requires perl-base = 5.32.0, but this requirement cannot be provided Problem: alien-8.88-4.10.x86_64 requires perl = 5.32.0, but this requirement cannot be provided This is a perfect example of BAD requirements on specific versions of

On 2021/03/22 03:19, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: perl.

Why does a 'noarch' package require a specific version of perl?

Also, according to the perl project, those  requirements should apply to perl-5.32.  The binary API of 5.32.1 should be compatible with 5.32.0.

That's why perl-5.32.1 provides perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.32.0) and perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.32.1) And that's what the perl macros require - but unfortunately rpmlint for years insisted on a perl require, so people opted for an explicit require. I now fixed dh-autoreconf and still I get this from rpmlint: dh-autoreconf.noarch: W: no-dependency-on perl-base 5.32.1 Greetings, Stephan -- Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh