Re: Bug#215730: libnet-perl: provides Net::Config, which is in perl-modules
tag 215730 + pending
thanks
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:39:20PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Package: libnet-perl, perl-modules
>> Version: 1.17-1, 5.8.1-2
>>
>> This package provides /usr/share/perl5/Net/Config.pm; however,
>> /etc/perl/Net/Config.pm is provided by perl-modules, and so will be
>> used in preference.
>
>OK, the problem is this: libnet-perl installs its modules to
>/usr/share/perl5/Net/ (no problem there). The modules provided by
>perl-modules are installed to /usr/share/perl/5.8.1/Net/ (still no
>problem), but Net::Config is installed to /etc/perl/Net/ - which is a
>problem! On a normal Debian system, the files included in libnet-perl
>won't use their own Config.pm but the older one included in
>perl-modules.
You're quite correct. Many moons ago Net::Config was an automatically
generated conffile (similar to /usr/share/doc/perl/Net/Config.eg). I
moved it to /etc/perl under the mistaken assumption that was still the
case.
>A solution for that would be to move /etc/perl/Net/Config.pm to
>/usr/share/perl/5.8.1/Net/. I attached a patch for this solution.
Applied, thanks.
[Will wait a bit before uploading due to the current ABI problems.]
--bod
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