Bug 496278 – virtual/perl-Switch and >perl-5.12

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Fabian Groffen 2013-12-28 16:39:03 UTC]

virtual/perl-Switch depends on =dev-lang/perl-5.12* or its perl-core name equivalent.  With perl-5.16 being stable, virtual/perl-Switch now tries to pull in perl-5.12 since perl-core/Switch is not stable on amd64.  My suspicion is that the dep should be >=dev-lang/perl-5.12, since upstream mentions it's maintained by the perl mongers as part of perl core.

[Comment 1 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2013-12-28 18:58:50 UTC]

Switch.pm is not provided by Perl itself beyond 5.13.0
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corelist -a Switch

Data for 2013-12-20
Switch was first released with perl v5.7.3, deprecated (will be CPAN-only) in v5.11.0 and removed from v5.13.1
  v5.7.3     2.06      
  v5.8.0     2.09      
  v5.8.1     2.10      
  v5.8.2     2.10      
  v5.8.3     2.10      
  v5.8.4     2.10      
  v5.8.5     2.10      
  v5.8.6     2.10      
  v5.8.7     2.10      
  v5.8.8     2.10_01   
  v5.8.9     2.13      
  v5.9.0     2.10      
  v5.9.1     2.10      
  v5.9.2     2.10      
  v5.9.3     2.10_01   
  v5.9.4     2.10_01   
  v5.9.5     2.13      
  v5.10.0    2.13      
  v5.10.1    2.14      
  v5.11.0    2.14_01   
  v5.11.1    2.15      
  v5.11.2    2.16      
  v5.11.3    2.16      
  v5.11.4    2.16      
  v5.11.5    2.16      
  v5.12.0    2.16      
  v5.12.1    2.16      
  v5.12.2    2.16      
  v5.12.3    2.16      
  v5.12.4    2.16      
  v5.12.5    2.16      
  v5.13.0    2.16      
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Thus, the || ( ) conditional means to say:

- If you're on perl 5.12, use perl 5.12 
- Otherwise, install perl-core/Switch


perl-core/Switch exists.


So it seems perl-core/Switch needs to be stabilised due to the removal of <perl-5.13

[Comment 2 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2014-05-30 17:03:34 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 511874 ***