On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has > temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: > > Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to > the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports > sent by users. Rather than wait any longer for the upstream > Date::Manip to incorporate the fixes I have made my own release > (intended as a temporary measure, not a permanent fork)... I've > updated xmltv to require this version of the module (since it does > fix several fairly important problems). > > I'm not entirely sure what to do with this. > > One option would be to roll these forked bug fixes into the offical > Debian libdate-manip-perl package. There are no interface changes, so > this really shouldn't cause problems for anyone (in theory, anyway). I > have written the Debian libdate-manip-perl maintainer a few times in the > last few weeks about this, but I haven't heard anything back from him. > > Another option would be for me to create a temporary > libdate-manip-perl-fork package (or something) to temporarily provide > the forked code, which wouldn't affect users who don't install the XMLTV > packages. This would be OK, but I don't like the idea of adding > temporary packages to the archive. > > As a final option, I could just take out Makefile.PL's checks on version > and build the Debian XMLTV packages against the version of Date::Manip > currently in Debian. This bothers me because it would leave us open to > Debian-only bugs for which there's an obvious fix that Debian doesn't > support. > > Does anyone have any opinions on the best way to deal with this?
i dont know anything about perl, but might it be possible to add the forked module to the xmltv package, in some way that doesnt conflict with the libdate-manip-perl that exists in debian? this would allow the fixed version to be used, without adding a temporary package. -- gram
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