On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 04:08:39PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Source: perl-doc-html > Version: 5.10.1-1 > Severity: normal > > This package is out of date; the (upstream) version of perl in unstable > is 5.12.4, and will soon be 5.14.1. > Yes, I apologize for that. Since there is no way to create a watch file for this package, I have to remember to check it manually and I have forgotten for quite some time.
> Please update the version of the perldoc shipped in this package. > > Please also consider using the code at > > <http://perl.jonallen.info/projects/perldoc> to build the documentation > from the shipped perl package. > So, I have several problems with this: - No upstream releases are made - The repository has no tags - The "documentation" (if you could call it that) doesn't make much sense (though I have not experimented with actually building the documentation) To be honest, I would like a better approach than "download some generically named tarball with all the HTML already built." But this will take some work, at least initially to make it work. Plus the versioning will need to be figured out. > I've made a related comment on #154963 about whether we could go one > stage further and do that from within the perl package itself, rather > than a separate source package, but I'm not yet sure whether this is > going to be practical. > That would be ideal, but given the age of the bug, I presume it is not an especially easy thing to accomplish. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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