On Wed, Nov 27, 2002, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002, Michael Schloh wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>     Redirect buildfiles as well as installation, add build and runtime
>>     prerequisites, remove unused l_prefix substitution, correct version
>>     substitution, and do not package unused and generated files.
>> [...]
> 
> Err... no, I _INTENTIONALLY_ have _NOT_ made it dependent on Perl and
> Make. That's why I packaged the openpkg.1 and not just openpkg.pod. What
> you are trying to fix is the @version@. Ok, but not this way, please.
> 
This package includes perl scripts, just like m4 or openssl. In efforts to
make OpenPKG as robust and *self contained* as possible, we've always stated
dependencies explicitly. Is there a good reason that now, we are not stating
that this (clearly perl-needing) package requires perl? How are we going to
otherwise know if the external perl is not very old or a custom installation?

You packaged a Makefile, although it was left unused in the packaging. I
assumed it could be used to work around the version expansion problem copying
the raw manfile. There are a number of other possible solutions however, none
of them requiring packaging of the Manfile or a dependency to make.

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