Re: Bug#557882: ITP: libextutils-manifest-perl -- utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:18:50AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I intend to package the ExtUtils::Manifest Perl module. It is already packaged
> in the perl-modules packages, but in Lenny the provided version is too low to
> allow backports of one package of mine that would be fine otherwise.
Have you checked if your package actually needs something from the newer
ExtUtils::Manifest? It could be just a spurious dependency.
> My purpose
> is therefore to prepare a libextutils-manifest-perl package similar in design
> to libmodule-build-perl, which is also dually present in Debian, and then to
> submit a backport to backports.org after the package migrated in Testing.
Do you mean a sid+squeeze package is only needed because of a
backports.org policy to only accept packages in squeeze? That seems
a bit backwards to me.
> Please let me know if this would create problems or if more coordination is
> required with the perl-modules package.
We should add
Provides: libextutils-manifest-perl
Replaces: libextutils-manifest-perl
Conflicts: libextutils-manifest-perl (<< 1.56)
into perl-modules if there's going to be a separate package too. Even
if it ends up only in backports.org, the control entries don't hurt and
they could be useful for upgrades.
Please file a bug against perl about this if libextutils-manifest-perl
is uploaded.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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