On Sat, 08 May 2010 15:36:18 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > Moving forward, I don't see too many regressions in Module::Install > > being problematic, but we can always clean inc/Module/Install.pm and > > inc/Module/Install/* before installation, and engage author mode to > > recreate those things. But I don't know if M::I is actually designed > > to always be backward compatible or not. > Aren't there risks if we go down this path? Don't we want a > pristine upstream source? Do we really want to strip M::I from the > source if some of our users expect it? I mean, I doubt there is > someone somewhere in the world who is downloading source packages > from debian and then building them all with M::I, but nonetheless, > should we be removing pieces of the CPAN module? Iff we take this route we wouldn't modify the upstream tarball but just rm -r inc/Module/Install* during build (in the clean target) and build-depend on libmodule-install-perl. (At least ISTR that I've tried that once and it works. It's just boring to do this manually.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Dire Straits: Love Over Gold
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