Andrew Schulman writes: > ATM when I build perl-Stow, the files go into /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14. > If I understand right, you're asking me to provide an updated package where > the > files will go into /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22 instead. Correct?
Yes. It will automatically do that when you build it again with Perl 5.22. > Leave aside that it seems brain-dead that I should have to rebuild my package > for such a triviality. Wouldn't it be nice if I could put the files into, > say, > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl, and not have to rebuild my package every time > there's a new point release of Perl? The thing here is that we're making quite a jump from 5.14 to 5.22 (four major upstream releases) with a bunch of user-visible changes and while it would have been possible to make 5.22 look modules up in the 5.14 directories and it would generally work, there were too many changes for _all_ of that to work correctly and some of these errors would likely have been quite non-obvious. So I decided that things must be rebuilt with 5.22 for this update specifically. > But okay, I'll rebuild it. So are you asking me to first wait until Perl 5.22 > comes out, then rebuild the package and release it afterwards? Or to manually > change where the files go, and release the update at the same time as Perl > 5.22? The idea was that you install the pre-release Perl that was published specifically to facilitate this rebuild. > And doesn't this mean that perl-Stow-2.2.0-3 should be made to depend > explicitly > on perl version 5.22? Which upset doesn't currently support, IIRC. To be honest, I've been thinking about making a perl522 instead of just a perl package, but that looked even less appealing, given that the next few updates of Perl quite likely don't require such jumping through hoops. > I mean, seriously, this seems like a lot of dumb work to me. Sorry. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada
