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

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:12:03 +0200 Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org> wrote:
>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 may have over reached on the versions of the *raw* packages needed.  The 
uninstallability concern is because (at least some of) these packages 
depend on a version of the raw packages less than 2.020.  I believe (but 
did not actually check) that this is due to incompatibility.  This is why 
I've assumed they need updating together.

The new raw-zlib version is needed by the current amavisd-new release.

>> 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?
>
No.  I'm glad to contribute the packaging work back to Debian, but I don't 
have a long-term commitment to the package.  I only got into this because I 
was updating the amavisd-new dependency chain in Ubuntu.

Scott K

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