Chip Turner,
> ...
> So my original idea of solving this problem once was to split out
> perl-CGI and then release updates to it. Bad idea. Wouldn't have
> worked. So subsequently what I did with things like perl-Time-HiRes
> was completely destroy them from the perl package so that they -had-
> to be external packages. You can see examples of such expurgation in
> the current perl.spec file:
>
> find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*HiRes*' | xargs rm -rfv
> find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*Filter*' | xargs rm -rfv
> find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*NDBM*' | xargs rm -rfv
>
> Begone! Begone, foul packages.
> ...
A couple of question and notes about the above lines:
1) *HiRes* => perl-Time-HiRes
Do you agree in bringing Time::HiRes back to the perl core
package?
Perl 5.8 has been having a pretty fast release cycle with
the pumpkin manager Nicholas Clark: a new release almost every
four months (although I remember reading somewhere - maybe in
the perl5-porters mailing lists - that they were planning in
increasing the time between new 5.8 releases to 6 months).
Pumpkin manager Nicholas Clark
5.8.2 2003-Nov-05
5.8.3 2004-Jan-14
5.8.4 2004-Apr-21
5.8.5 2004-Jul-19
5.8.6 2004-Nov-27
2) *Filter* => perl-Filter and perl-Filter-Simple
The removal of Filter files causes similar problems
Filter::Util::Call (perl-Filter)
--------------------------------
Perl version Core module Filter::Util::Call
5.008 1.06
5.008001 1.0601
5.008002 1.0601
5.008003 1.0601
5.008004 1.0601
5.008005 1.0601
5.008006 1.0601
CPAN module id = Filter::Util::Call
DESCRIPTION Interface for creation of Perl Filters
CPAN_USERID PMQS (Paul Marquess <pmqs@xxxxxxxx>)
CPAN_VERSION 1.06
CPAN_FILE P/PM/PMQS/Filter-1.30.tar.gz
The CPAN module version is older than the one shipped with
Perl. The CPAN Filter distribution has more files than the
ones shipped with perl.
Proposal: Ship the core perl module and drop the external
perl-Filter package.
Filter::Simple (perl-Filter-Simple)
-----------------------------------
Perl version Core module Filter::Simple
5.008 0.78
5.008001 0.78
5.008002 0.78
5.008003 0.78
5.008004 0.78
5.008005 0.78
5.008006 0.78
CPAN Module id = Filter::Simple
DESCRIPTION Simplified source filtering
CPAN_USERID DCONWAY (Damian Conway <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>)
CPAN_VERSION 0.79
CPAN_FILE D/DC/DCONWAY/Filter-Simple-0.79.tar.gz
The CPAN module is newer than the one shipped with core Perl.
Try to have it updated upstream (ping perl5-portes).
3) *NDBM* => /dev/null ?
Why has this module been erased? As far as I can tell
there is no external perl module being packaged with NDBM.
Regards,
jpo
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