Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620937 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx --- Comment #4 from Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-08-04 12:24:07 EDT --- Core perl modules in Fedora now come from one of two sources: 1. as a subpackage of the main perl module, which will generally be the version bundled with the upstream perl distribution 2. as a separately maintained (standalone) package based on an upstream release from CPAN In this case, the Fedora perl package includes version 2.023 of perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib and the standalone package is version 2.027. The point of splitting out these packages into their own packages is so that they can be updated more easily without having to respin the whole perl package for every module update, requiring 100 MB or so download of unchanged perl code for a few KB of module update. So when an updated perl version is issued to fix an actual perl bug, it may contain some perl module subpackages that are older than the ones already issued. This doesn't matter - the standalone package is the one that's being kept up to date and the one that ends up on users' systems. That's what's intended. Now it might be argued that the main perl package shouldn't generate subpackages for modules that are maintained separately in Fedora. I can see the logic in that argument. But it wouldn't make any difference to the end users - they get the latest (highest numbered, rather than chronologically built) version whether it comes from the main perl package or the standalone package, and that's what's intended. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
