Re: Challenges around Perl 5.20 (was: Bug#677865: dpkg-gencontrol warns about 'File::FcntlLock not available')
On Wed, 28 May 2014 09:57:27 +0800, Paul Wise 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?
Sorry if I misunderstood you, but where would the actual CGI::Fast
files live then?
(They are not in upstream perl >= 5.20 anymore and not in upstream
CGI >= 4 anymore but in their own distribution.)
Cheers,
gregor
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