I posted a patch for this bug Sep. 16, and the maintainer did
not react. I know there was this maintainer timeout rule, but I
also remember that there was discussion about abandoning it.
Can I apply this change now?
Florian
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From: MacPorts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Subject: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs
Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: | Port: p5-mac-carbon
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The cause is a dependency "port:p5-test-simple".
p5-test-simple overwrites files of the perl5.8 installation, and this
causes the failure, if -f is not present. (test-simple depends
on p5-test-harness, and that has the same problem as test-simple).
It seems that p5-mac-carbon does not really need the port p5-test-simple,
so it should be removed as a dependency. There were other ports which
declared test-simple as a dependency even though they didn't really need
it, and this is probably just another case.
Port p5-test-simple does not provide additional packages, but rather an
update of perl5.8 components. So only ports which depend on these updates
have to use p5-test-simple. Many may well work without, even if they use
Test::Simple package.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16551>
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Florian Ebeling
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