Re: [Fink-devel] Pod::Perldoc

[Daniel M. <dm...@ne...>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:20:15AM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote:
> A Perl module I'm trying to package depends on Pod::Perldoc v3.14.   
> Earlier versions of that module are provided by the core Perl (e.g.  
> v3.13 is in Perl 5.8.6 and v3.10 is in Perl 5.8.1), however our Perl  
> packages (e.g. perl581.info) do not list pod-perldoc-pm in the  
> Provides area.
> 
> If I do package pod-perldoc-pm v3.14:
>  * Do we need to update perl58x.info to add Provides/Conflicts for  
> pod-perldoc-pm?
>  * Does my package need to Conflict with perl581-core?
>  * Does my package need to be Perl-versioned?

Since there's no existing pkg for this namespace, you get to set
it. Your pkg only needs to be perl-versioned as per the usual rules
(it contains compiled C or it Depends on a perl-versioned pkg).

perlXXX-core is installed in a separate location from where packaged
perl modules go (%p/lib/perl5-core instead of %p/lib/perl5), so no
Conflicts or Replaces is necessary here.

If you think it would be useful to have the various perlXXX-core
Provides:perl-poddoc-pm (or -pmXXX) we can certainly do so. OTOH,
assuming your actual perl-poddoc-pm is simple and has few Depends, I'm
not sure it's worth forcing users to recompile their perl core pkg
just to prevent their having to install a small module to satisfy
"Depends:perl-poddoc-pm".

dan

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