[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Old proposal regarding naming of Perl module packages



On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:28, Daniel Pittman<daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:

> Having a standard mechanical mapping from CPAN to Debian package name makes
> life easier; recently the 'libcatalyst-modules-perl' package has been a pain
> in my neck because it bundles an awful lot of CPAN stuff into one package.
>
> That means that *anything* that depends on that requires manual massaging
> during the packaging process.  Not that ...

Maybe packages like this should 'Provide' virtual packages named after
the bundled libraries?

-- 
Martín Ferrari


Reply to: