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Bug 385697

Summary: virtual/perl-DB_File-1.820 wrongly fulfilled by dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component: [OLD] DevelopmentAssignee: Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2011-10-05 08:07:57 UTC
The latest stable of virtual/perl-DB_File (1.820) has this RDEPEND line:

RDEPEND="|| ( ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.4 ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.3[berkdb] ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.2[berkdb] ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.1[berkdb] ~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1[berkdb] ~perl-core/DB_File-${PV} )"

That means installing perl 5.12.4 fulfils that dependency and emerge --depclean will remove DB_File. However, perl 5.12.4 does not install DB_File, so one ends up with a system without DB_File.
Comment 1 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-06 15:32:16 UTC
@Hanno

last time I've checked devs could assign their bugs ;)
Comment 2 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-15 18:12:14 UTC
Added [berkdb] once again. Thanks Hanno.