Re: Bug#530615: ITP: libfile-temp-perl -- return name and handle of a temporary file safely

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:41:53AM -0300, Brian Cassidy wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> wrote:
> >  This module is already packaged:
> >
> >  sh-3.2$ ls /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm
> >  /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm
> >
> >  sh-3.2$ dpkg --search /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm
> >  perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm
> >
> >  Did you miss this, or is it being removed from perl-modules?
> 
> File::Temp is dual-lived (Core+CPAN). This package is meant for users
> and other packages that require more
> recent versions of the module that get shipped to CPAN.

Please mention this in the package description. For instance,
this is what I put in podlators-perl:

 Note that the Perl core distribution (supplied in the perl package)
 already includes older versions of these modules and scripts. Please
 depend on this package only if you specifically need the newer
 features, for instance the improved UTF-8 support.

Also see #497130, which led to the removal of the previous incarnation
of libfile-temp-perl (at version 0.20).
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Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org