Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Proposal: > Replace section 3.2 of the perl sub-policy included with Debian policy > with the following text:
> Packages which contain perl modules should provide virtual packages > that correspond to the primary module or modules in the package. The > naming convention is that for module 'Foo::Bar', the package should > provide 'libfoo-bar-perl'. This may be used as the package's name if > the result is not too long and cumbersome. Or the package's name may > be an abbreviated version, and the longer name put in the Provides > field. I object. Until versioned provides work reliably, doing this prevents any use of versioned dependencies on such packages which may come back to haunt us. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
