libcgi-*perl. Perl, and diversions.
Hi folks,
I used to be the maintainer of the obsolete CGI-modules
package. That package was made obsolete because it also contained
CGI.pm, and was the sole upper case package, and I was getting tired
of massaging dpkg-dev to construct the package. And the new Perl
contains CGI.pm.
However, the new Perl does not contain the modular CGI modules
(which, according to the author, are the choices for the future, but
at the moment CGI.pm is the rapid prototype so is updated more
frequently), so at least the CGI modules are still required, so I
packaged them up as libcgi-perl.
Working on the premise that CGI.pm will be updated more
frequently than Perl itself, as it has in the past, I also packaged
up CGI.pm as libcgi-pm-perl.
The problem that exists now is that there are files in common
between the three packages, namely, perl, libcgi-perl, and
libcgi-pm-perl.
In order to not wipe out the new files in libcgi-* modules
when when upgrades Perl, I would like to divert the files installed
by perl away (I guess this means the libcgi-* packages had better be
kept up to date).
Is this a reasonable thing to do? Are there any better
methods? can two different packages divert the same file? Since only
some library files and man pages are common, I did not think that
update-alternatives was reasonable.
The other option is to remove libcgi-pm-perl, since that is
subsumed into Perl (ignoring intermediate releases), and just have
libcgi-perl divert Carp.pm (and the corresponding man page).
Comments?
manoj
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Perl libcgi-pm-perl libcgi-perl
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Apache.pm X X
Carp.pm X X X
Fast.pm X X
Push.pm X X
Switch.pm X X
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