Kristis Makris wrote:
> Hi John, please send all communication to the mailing list.
>
> On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:44 -0500, John Griffiths wrote:
>   
>> Kristis,
>> I want to thank you for your work. It is not easy developing something 
>> like scmbug especially by yourself.
>>     
>
> Thank you. It goes a long way.
>
>   
>> I want to ask you to do something for those of us that want to or do use 
>> scmbug that are not using Debian. 
>>
>> I see that in bug IDs 551 and 562, you stated that Debian package should 
>> depend on libxml-simple-perl and libmail-sendmail-perl, and in bug ID 
>> 1159 that scmbug-server depends on libnet-ldap-perl.
>>
>> The package is listed as being OS Independent on freshmeat.net. May I 
>> point out that the RPMs for scmbug packages have the libxml-simple-perl, 
>> libmail-sendmail-perl, and libnet-ldap-perl dependencies which make them 
>> fail to install on Fedora.
>>     
>
> I must admit I was not sure what the package names were supposed to be
> for "RPM". I don't know what packaging for "RPM Systems" means -- it
> seems that different Linux distributions based on RPM name some packages
> differently. I feel we are almost moving from the DLL hell of Windows
> with version numbers into a package naming hell.
>
>   
>> I believe the Fedora equivalents of libxml-simple-perl, 
>> libmail-sendmail-perl, and libnet-ldap-perl are perl-XML-Simple.noarch, 
>> perl-LDAP.noarch, perl-Mail-Sendmail.noarch. If you  could make the RPMs 
>> depend on those packages instead when the distribution is Fedora and the 
>> current perl libs when the distribution is Debian, then at least two 
>> distributions would be installable without having to do nodeps.
>>     
>
> Thanks a lot. I'll change the package names in the dependencies.
>
>   
>> Hope your New Year is great.
>>     
>
> This is one of my New Year's resolutions! Heh.
>
> http://bugzilla.mkgnu.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1314
>
> Cheers!
>   
Thank you!

Regarding perl-Net-LDAP vs perl-LDAP, I checked both a Fedora 8 and a 
Fedora 10 system and it is perl-LDAP on both.

Seems the independent spirit of Linux programmers has left us with 
package naming misery. [sarcasm] Standards? We don't need any standards. 
[/sarcasm]

Regards,
John
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