Re: [rt.cpan.org #58445] overzealous usage of configure_requires considered harmful

[Tim Retout <tim@retout.co.uk>]

On 19 June 2010 18:52, Guy Hulbert <gwhulbert@eol.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-19-06 at 19:30 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>> When I am in a situation like this, I the following actions in order.
>>
>>  1. Install the package from squeeze or sid. Most of the time this
>>     works right away and APT pinning helps not to pull the whole
>>     distribution into the stable environment.
>>  2. Backport the package from squeeze or sid. This is seldom
>>     necessary. The most common case is modules with XS.
>
> Could you not (2) try install from the source package for modules with
> XS so your step (2) would become (3).

Backporting is the process of building for stable from a newer source
package, so I don't see a difference between these two.  You could
potentially contribute any packages like this to lenny-backports, via
the perl team.

I might have added "installing from lenny-backports" at (2), however.

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Tim Retout <tim@retout.co.uk>