On Mon, 12 May 2014 13:06:45 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > I'd like to survey the opinion of the team about CPAN modules packaged > as bundles. Yay, one of our recurring favourite discussion items :) > First I tried to make their maintenance easier, with main goal making > the upgrades more accountable by having modules' sources tracked > expanded in the packaging Git. This worked fine with > libcatalyst-modules-perl. You may want to compare that to > libcatalyst-modules-extra-perl, which still uses tarballs instead of > expanded sources. The looks indeed very nice, compared to the old status. Thanks! > All in all, after working on libcatalyst-modules-perl, I wish it was > not a bundle. Improving the bundle management makes things easier, but > still not as much as the ordinary non-bundled packages. Ack. > So, what do others think about bundles? I still think the same: They are a PITA. > So what do others think? To bundle or to split? Not digging out all previous discussions but: the current (?) status seems to be: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks "bundle packages: just do it, and see what happens (notes: pkg-components, ftp-master clarification)" where 'just do it' it means: split them up, and 'ftp-master clarification' is a link to https://bugs.debian.org/606411 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: R.E.M.: Nightswimming
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