Hm, fair enough. I'll close the bug; and will not package the Alien module.
This also makes me wonder though, should a similar fate befall libalien-wxwidgets-perl? aven'jon(~/alien-jio/Alien-Libjio/t)> apt-cache rdepends libalien-wxwidgets-perl libalien-wxwidgets-perl Reverse Depends: libwx-perl So if libwx-perl is patched, then libalien-wxwidgets-perl could be made obsolete... On the other hand, even if this isn't something we'd like in the future, maybe we could set a policy for that. I'll e-mail debian-policy in a few days (pending any further discussion on these lists first - debian-devel and debian-perl) to get some clarification on this. Thanks :-) Jonathan On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Ryan Niebur<ryanrya...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:29:40PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Brian: >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, brian m. >> carlson<sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:14:29PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> >> This module is a generic Perl module that is designed to install libjio >> >> if it >> >> is not installed, and then report the flags required for programs to link >> >> to >> >> it. Under Debian, installing libjio via this package is not necessary >> >> (since >> >> it can simply Build-Depend and Depend on the libjio package itself. >> >> >> >> However, the Perl module still needs to be installed so that Perl >> >> programs can >> >> find it, and the flags required to link to it. This will be useful if >> >> modules >> >> other than simply IO::Journal (later to be ITP'd as libio-journal-perl, >> >> once >> >> it is appropriately uploaded to CPAN). >> >> >> >> Luckily, since only the Perl stuff is going to be installed, then it's not >> >> likely we'll ever need to really upgrade this module... >> > >> > Can't you just patch the modules in question so that they don't need to >> > use this module? It seems silly to create a module just to make sure >> > that a dependency is installed. That's for the Perl module building >> > system or dpkg to ensure. >> That is a very good point. However, I'm just not sure if other modules >> will want to use Alien::Libjio -- it has a few methods that wrap >> around pkg-config and ExtUtils::Liblist, so that you can get compile >> flags and linker flags (that applications need to compile XS bindings >> against libjio). >> > > you meantion that other modules may want to use it...well, then lets > deal with packaging that when this happens. there's no reason to right > now. > > -- > _________________________ > Ryan Niebur > ryanrya...@gmail.com > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkoy6dEACgkQMihv+PacasUXMwCfTC5i9PcNiJGxq26AGY6Jr5xF > HDYAoNKQmdPoV9OkT62GzqM1n1koj3bg > =+CrV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
