Neil Williams schreef:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:07:35 +0100
Sjors Gielen <mailingl...@dazjorz.com> wrote:
I'd like to ask you to reopen this bug. I have sent you a patch which
fixes debhelper so it can unpack on case insensitive file systems or
operating systems. debhelper has in its main directory, next to the
regular debian directory, also a Debian directory which contains Perl
modules. The patch (see the original bug report) fixes this case
conflict by moving the Debian directory to lib/.
Even if only looking at perl packages installed on my own machine, this
problem is not unique to debhelper - any package that has a Debian::
perl module is likely to have exactly the same "problem"/feature.
$ ls /usr/share/perl5/Debian
AdduserCommon.pm Debhelper Dependency.pm DpkgCross.pm
AptContents.pm Defoma DictionariesCommon.pm Dwww
DebConf Dependencies.pm DocBase Packages
Not really. For example the Defoma directory there:
defoma-0.11.10$ find . -name '*.pm'
./pm/Defoma/SubstCache.pm
[...]
DocBase:
doc-base-0.8.20$ find . -name '*.pm'
./perl/Debian/DocBase/Document.pm
This is a problem of packaging only. For debhelper, this is the current
situation:
debhelper-7.0.15$ find . -name '*.pm'
./Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/python_support.pm
As you see, the Debian dir here conflicts with the regular debian
directory on case insensitive filesystems.
If I'm correct, OS X may work in case insensitive mode too.
It's been a while since I used OSX but I certainly remember .DS_Store
directories all over the place and various applications using a mix of
capitalised and lower case directory names.
So this would not only help debhelper on Win32 platforms, but also on OS
X in some configurations.
Sjors
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