Re: removing useless dependencies

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 04:27:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:00:53PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > > The Perl patterns essentially assume that the version of Perl
>  > > > will be higher than the version of the module.
>  > > Do I read this correctly as "the module version in the given Perl's core 
>  > > will be higher than the module version provided by the pkgsrc package"?
>  > 
>  > No. Let's pick a nice example to illustrate the problem:
>  > 
>  > DEPENDS+= {perl>=5.17.3,p5-Text-Tabs+Wrap>=2001.0131}:../../textproc/p5-Text-Tabs+Wrap
>  > 
>  > from bugzilla. Let's say we have perl-5.22.0 and
>  > p5-Text-Tabs+Wrap-2013.0523nb2 in the repository. By itself, this will
>  > install p5-Text-Tabs+Wrap-2013.0523nb2 because it has the higher version
>  > number.
> 
> ...which is a bug.

Please stop asserting that random things are bugs without understanding
both the big picture and the details, thanks.

Joerg