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Re: libtime-modules-perl



-=| Daniel Lintott, 27.05.2014 19:26:04 +0100 |=-
> I've just been taking a look through PET, and the list of watch problem.
> Once package I've looked at on that list appears to be in an interesting
> state... libtime-modules-perl
> 
> After a bit of investigation it appears the last release of Time-Modules
> was 2013.0912, but that is where it get's interesting... whilst trying
> to find the package on metacpan I've discovered that the package has
> been renamed to Time-ParseDate [0] starting with release 2013.0916

> [0] https://metacpan.org/release/Time-ParseDate

Good catch.

> I can see two options for updating the package:
>   a) Keep the same in Debian (doesn't seem user friendly)
>   b) We start again by packaging the new upstream version and providing
> a transitional package which depends on the new package.

certainly b). Or perhaps a light version of it, where only the 
source/binary package is renamed and a dummy transitional binary 
package named libtime-modules-perl is kept until Jessie is released. 
That's what I'd do at least.


-- dam

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