| Subject: | Problem with dependency versions (cpan vs debian) |
I was just testing cpan2dist. I was building packages to set up an apt
repository for Moose and KiokuDB. Quite a few of the packages that were
generated depend on cpan-libpathtools-perl.
The version of pathtools that got installed was 3.30-1. All the
packages that depended on cpan-libpathtools-perl were requiring a
minimum version of cpan-libpathtools-perl 3.2501. Apt believed that
3.2501-1 was newer than 3.30-1.
For my testing purposes I cheated and I changed the version of
libpathtools to a number greater than 3.2501. After doing that I was
able to index the repository and use apt to install all the packages.
I imagine this bug is just caused by a discrepancy between the way CPAN
and apt compare version numbers.
My test virtual machine is running Ubuntu 9.04 with perl 5.10.0.