Re: Challenges around Perl 5.20 (was: Bug#677865: dpkg-gencontrol warns about 'File::FcntlLock not available')
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:30 AM, gregor herrmann wrote:
> - CGI and friends are removed; CGI.pm is already packages separately
> anway; where it gets interesting is that CGI::Fast, which was also
> part of perl core,
> + is split off into its own dist since CGI 4.0
> + but is currently also in its own binary package libcgi-fast-perl,
> produced by the perl source package
> so we can't just package the new separate CGI::Fast as
> libcgi-fast-perl.
> I guess waiting for 5.20 (which probably will drop the libcgi-fast-perl
> binary package) and making a somehow coordinated upload of
> libcgi-pm-perl 4 (without CGI::Fast) and a new separate
> libcgi-fast-perl should be enough? (With getting versions right et
> al.)
Why not make libcgi-fast-perl a transitional package built by the CGI
4.0 source package?
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bye,
pabs
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