Re: Bug#130476: libmath-numbercruncher-perl: fails due to bigfloat?
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:34:40PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:
> Dirk> Oh dear. The package now relies on Math::BigFloat (not part
> Dirk> of Perl, at least not 5.6.1) as well as version 1.49 of
> Dirk> Math::BigInt -- which is newer than the one shipped with
> Dirk> 5.6.1.
>
> Eh?
>
> perl -MMath::BigFloat -e 'print $INC{"Math/BigFloat.pm"},"\n";'
> /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Math/BigFloat.pm
>
> Looks like it's in the Debian perl package to me.
Much older versions, though. Perl 5.6.1 comes with 0.01 and 0.02 of BigInt /
BigFloat.
> Dirk> Comments from your end? Would you be willing/able to
> Dirk> downgrade to a 4.02 version? Or would you rather see
> Dirk> Math::BigInt override your Perl defaults?
>
> As Math-BigInt-1.49.tar.gz includes both Math::BigInt &
> Math::BigFloat, why not just include that in math-numbercruncher?
> Rename Math to Math_ and the new versions won't mask the installed
> packages.
>
> Alternately, you could just ITP libmath-bigint-perl :)
Yes, I just packaged it (without an ITP) but am confused over failing tests
in the bigfltpm.t / bigintpm.t from the Perl 5.6.1 package. Or shouldn't I?
Dirk
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