Re: libemail-localdelivery-perl
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:50:09PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> I opened debian/copyright for libemail-localdelivery-perl
> and saw that it was originally packaged by Niko.
> What should I put in debian/copyright?
Sorry for being late, I've been on vacation.
I don't really think there's much creative content here, but I just
added a note in debian/copyright to get this clear.
> > >> that patch looks intrusive and I don't see it reported upstream. Seems
> > >> strange.
> > > Niko?
> > I can live with this patch, but if it is useful and needed, better have
> > it applied upstream too.
The patch (10mbox-locking.dpatch in libemail-localdelivery-perl) is
non-portable - see the debian-perl 'Mailbox locking' thread in December
2005, especially this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2005/12/msg00047.html
It's also specific to Debian in the sense that it implements the
requirements of the Debian policy and relies on having dotlockfile(1)
available (which is probably not very common.)
For these reasons, I didn't send the patch upstream straight away,
and mostly forgot about it afterwards. It would be good form to inform
upstream, of course, and possibly this could make it in as a compile-time
option or somesuch.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll file a CPAN ticket about this soon.
Cheers,
--
Niko Tyni ntyni@iki.fi
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