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Re: Packaging best practice questions (was: Re: Bug#764202: RFP: libiri-perl -- Perl module for Internationalized Resource Identifiers)



On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:23:35 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:

> libiri-perl packaging is now pushed to the common location [..]

> 1. IRI has some inc/Module/Install directory which looks a lot like an
>    embedded code copy, but is used in Makefile.PL. What's the best
>    practice there? Leave it or patch it to use some
>    libmodule-install-perl?

Usually we just take a deep breath, sigh, and accept what's in inc/.
(In this specific case I'm also not sure if all modules are
packaged.)
 
> 2. IRI has an empty Changes file, but some XML files at Changes.ttl
>    and Changes.xml. The former contains the real changelog data, but
>    hidden in less readable XML. Anyone knows which tools are needed to
>    un-XML-ify that changelog format?

Ugh, this really looks ... interesting.
Sorry, I have no idea about tools for sanifying those files.


Cheers,
gregor

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