<quote who="Dominic Hargreaves" date="Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 04:47:10PM +0000"> > I write as someone preparing an NMU for > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393311. > > Template Toolkit 2.15 removed a few plugin modules from the main > distribution and I would like to package this new version. > The plugins removed are: > > Template::Plugin::DBI > Template::Plugin::XML > Template::Plugin::GD > > I've checked packages depending on libtemplate-perl, and the only > package that appears to use any of these plugin modules is bugzilla. > Would it therefore be okay to simply package libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl, > and have bugzilla depend on it (and possibly the equivalent > libtemplate-plugin-dbi-perl and libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl packages), > and then upload a new libtemplate-perl reflecting upstream's changes > with a NEWS.Debian entry explaining the change? Should libtemplate-perl > then Recommend or Depend on the new separate plugin modules? My > intuition would be to avoid a Depends.
If Bugzilla can be updated to include a depends on the new package, it should be turned into a recommends. Later, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mako.cc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
