Re: XML::SAX::Machines Vendor Patch
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Niko Tyni<ntyni@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:00:02AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
>
>> So recently the EUMM was switched over to Module::Install, so I
>> removed the changes you made in vendorlibs.patch. However, gregoa
>> believes that those changes are probably useful to have and I don't
>> know what the intent of it was or how I would patch Module::Install.
>
> I must admit I have little recollection of this, so I'm mostly guessing
> here.
>
>> Would you mind taking a look at it and maybe writing a patch for the
>> new Module::Install mechanism?
>
> The old version only created a template XML::SAX::Machines::SiteConfig
> module at build time if one was not already present on the system. This
> didn't suit the Debian package because it would break the build on a
> system where the package was already installed.
>
> So it looks like I patched a quick fix into Makefile.PL so it skipped
> checking the system directories when looking for an existing installation.
> (I think the check would always fail in that case, so the solution wasn't
> very elegant.)
>
> Apparently upstream has now dropped the template ::SiteConfig module
> altogether, and lib/XML/SAX/Machines/ConfigHelper.pm seems to be dead
> weight. I don't think any form of the patch is needed anymore.
Excellent. Thanks for your well-reasoned and well-explained e-mail.
The patch has been dropped and I'll mark the package as ready for
upload.
Thanks again!
>
> Cheers,
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> Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
>
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