Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 01:42 +0100 schrieb Gilles LAMIRAL:
> > > If the automatic tools are not smart enough, get them smart
> > > by changing the 'grep use' with 'grep use or require'.
> > Did you even bother to check whether debian uses automatic tools to find
> > the dependency?
> Debian doesn't use automatic tools to find the dependency?
> That's worst than I though.
Now it seems you are contradicting yourself. Packagers not reading
INSTALL files are bad, but packagers finding the dependencies by hand
are bad too? In fact, I don't know whether there is an automated tool
that generates the dependencies of perl packages like there is for
dynamically linked ELF binaries, but definitely in the case of your
package, the debian control file explicitly states:
Depends: perl, libdigest-hmac-perl, libterm-readkey-perl,
libio-socket-ssl-perl, libdate-manip-perl, libmail-imapclient-perl (>=
3.20-2), ${misc:Depends}
misc:Depends gets replaced by the debian packaging system by
dependencies introduced on building the package. The dependencies happen
to match exactly what you specifiy in your INSTALL file (except
Digest::MD5 is missing, as this is now packaged with base perl).
> > And now to something productive: Debian should just upgrade to a newer
> > upstream version to fix the bug.
> It's not productive since Debian stable never upgrade to a newer upstream
> version to fix a bug, unless for a security bug.
Did you consider checking which releases of debian 1.286 is in?
Hint: stable contains 1.252
See: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=imapsync
> We can conclude that debian stable is unstable
> by all the no-security then no-fixed bugs.
This has upsides and downsides. Consider the admin that made an ugly
workaround for a bug in stable, that would break if the bug were fixed
(which is a common property of bugs needing an ugly workaround). If an
update withing stable suddenly fixes the bug, the workaround breaks. The
idea of stable is to get security updates without having to worry about
this kind of issues on update.
And yes: I have been annoyed by unfixed bugs in stable, too, even up to
the point of recompiling patched packages.
Regards,
Michael Karcher
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