On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:55:57PM -0500, Koen van der Drift wrote:
As discussed by Dan Macks and myself on the submission tracker (for
gd-svg-pm), I suggested the following for handling perl modules. Maybe
it has been discussed previously, and there might be very good reasons
why it
Hi,
As discussed by Dan Macks and myself on the submission tracker (for
gd-svg-pm), I suggested the following for handling perl modules. Maybe
it has been discussed previously, and there might be very good reasons
why it won't work. Feel free to trash it, but be nice :)
Anyway, the idea is
Hi all,
I submitted a package to the tracker that is pure perl (gd-svg-pm), but
it depends on a versioned package (gd-pm). The package was not yet
moved to unstable because of an apparent problem with the versioning.
I quote the comments on the tracker (from Dan Macks):
One could have
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:18:37PM -0500, Koen van der Drift wrote:
Hi all,
I submitted a package to the tracker that is pure perl (gd-svg-pm), but
it depends on a versioned package (gd-pm). The package was not yet
moved to unstable because of an apparent problem with the versioning.
I
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
A possible solution would be to declare that any package that depends
on a versioned module must be versioned. Period. It would therefore be
installed in the versioned part of lib/perl5 and would have its
dependencies on versioned packages. No
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:39:20PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A possible solution would be to declare that any package that depends
on a versioned module must be versioned. Period. It would therefore be
installed in the versioned part of
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:39:20PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
[snip]
This would work pretty well, I think. However, there is another aspect
to the problem. Some pm packages install binaries in /sw/bin and/or
man pages in /sw/share/man. If you
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:12:47PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:39:20PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
Some pm packages install binaries in /sw/bin and/or man pages in
/sw/share/man. If you have different pmXXX
