Hi, This message is mainly to bring bug #504373 to the pkg-perl group's attention, even if this package is not ours - it falls within our statement of purpose. I am Cc:ing Dominic, as he has done some NMUs on this package (specifically, he introduced the version that splits the package into its components). And of course, Mako's input (as the package maintainer) is also welcome.
As we currently stand, several Template Toolkit plugins are available in Debian (not all of them introduced after Etch): $ apt-cache search libtemplate-plugin libtemplate-plugin-calendar-simple-perl - Simple calendar plugin for perl Template Toolkit libtemplate-plugin-class-perl - Call methods of arbitrary classes in perl Template Toolkit libtemplate-plugin-clickable-perl - Make URLs clickable in HTML libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl - GD plugin(s) for the Template Toolkit libtemplate-plugin-textile2-perl - textile plugin for the Template Toolkit libtemplate-plugin-xml-perl - XML plugins for the Template Toolkit libtemplate-plugin-yaml-perl - simple Template Toolkit Plugin Interface to the YAML module However, a big "selling point" for the Template Toolkit has long been the Template::DBI module. Sadly, I believe we are quite a bit late to introduce it into Lenny - But the package could be uploaded into Debian, and basically added straight to lenny-backports as soon as it is available. Other group members: Do you have anything to add to this? Would this be an adequate course of action? Do you think this would warrant mention in Lenny libtemplate-perl's NEWS.Debian section? I am not yet filing an ITP on this package, would like to get some input first - but it is the logical way to go IMHO. It could be tempting to downgrade this bug report, but I know many users will suffer from it - it definitively introduces a regression which, at the very least, needs to be clearly documented. And the regression will often fall on user-written code, causing many hours of head-scratching. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
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