Re: Replacing libio-compress-bzip2-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl, libio-compress-zlib-perl, and libio-compress-base-perl with libio-compress-perl

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Hi Scott!

You wrote:

> As I previously mentioned on the debian-perl list, upstream has combined 
> libio-compress-bzip2-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl, libio-compress-zlib-perl, 
> and libio-compress-base-perl into libio-compress-perl.  I'm working on 
> updating this in Ubuntu and want to contribute the work back to Debian.

Great!

> The package builds and is Lintian clean (source and binary), but before it can 
> be uploaded, libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl and libcompress-raw-zlib-perl will 
> have to be updated.  As soon as this is done, libio-compress-bzip2-perl, 
> libcompress-zlib-perl, libio-compress-zlib-perl, and libio-compress-base-perl 
> will be uninstallable. 

Why should the -raw package be updated?  The new libio-compress-perl
simply depends ont hem, so I don't see why these need to be changed.

Furthermore, as the new package Provides and Replaces the old
libio-compress-bzip2-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl,
libio-compress-zlib-perl, libio-compress-base-perl, I don't think they
will become uninstallable;  they will simply be replaced on any upgrade,
and can be safely removed from the archive once libio-compress-perl
makes it through NEW.  Or am I overlookign something here?

> I'm hoping to upload an Ubuntu'ized version of this soon, so I would 
> appreciate any review comments people have to offer.

Will you also maintain and uplaod the package in Debian?

Best regards,
Bas.

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