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 _______________________________________________ scmbug-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mkgnu.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scmbug-users
