On 05/12/2007, Robin Norwood <rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > o Most of our patches to 5.8.8 are either applied in 5.10.0, or fixed > differently. > - Many due to spot submitting all of them upstream when he > did the package review. Spot rocks. Submitting upstream rocks. I'd like more vendors to do this. > - The others seem to be RH/Fedora specific, including the diddling we > do with the path for the perlmodcompat stuff. > > o Speaking of the perlmodcompat stuff - is 5.10.0 a good time to get rid > of it? Or we be kicking ourselves when 5.10.x is released and we need > to rebuild everything? What's the perlmodcompat stuff, if I may ask? > o A bunch of formerly CPAN modules have been moved into core. Here's an > incomplete list: You'll get a full list from pod/perl5100delta.pod. [...] > - shall we just do these as subpackages? Are there any that would be > more appropriate leaving in the main perl package? I assume we'll > want to keep the perl-core convention Requiring the new subpackages. Except perl-version, which is really tied to the core, I assume you can make them subpackages, if that would ease upgrading them separately. > o Some of the packages that we split into subpackages for 5.8.8 didn't > change version in 5.10.0: > > perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30 > perl-Test-Harness-2.56 > perl-CPAN-1.76 > perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.26 > perl-Test-Simple-0.62 > > This means that the release field for the 5.8.8 packages will be 31 (or > whatever), while the release field for 5.10.0 will probably start at > 1...meaning the 5.8.8 versions will win vercomp. > > How to fix it? > > - Start at whatever the last perl.5.8.8 release is + 1? (Yuck!) Forget it: that could cause problems with intermediate perl upgrades for 5.8.8 in maintenance branches (like, security fixes). > - Epoch (double yuck!) Epoch isn't nice, but works, it wouldn't dismiss it from the start. > - Something smarter? (Smarter would be good) Smarter means tricky. My two cents: you could produce those subpackages with a Requires on perl-base >= 5.10.0 and a Conflicts on perl-base < 5.10.0. Not sure how upgraders (as yum) will cope with that though. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
