On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
It also allows one source package to generate different binary packages
(for instance, having scripts, libs and docs splitted), and makes it
easier to do an uninstall, because a "binary"/"installable" package
would have a fixed list of files.
I agree on the usefulness of a source distribution, but I'd argue
that, as far as a binary distribution goes, we'd be better off turning
everything into native packages, and building the binaries from there; from a
Fedora point of view, there'd be a CPAN RPM repository; I'll leave you to
figure out what it'd be from a Debian point of view.
In summary, I think inheriting most of the concepts from Debian is
something almost consensual, and there's much alignment in both
documents in that respect.
I agree with taking most of the concepts from Debian, but I'm afraid
my point is being overlooked; I want to make an object that will model package
data, whether CPAN packages or something else, and I want to try to support
all Metadata that might reasonably be used by multiple package managers (as
well as having an area for custom data). Pretty much everything I can see in
the Debian spec is something I'd want to support as part of the main (rather
than custom) data; the only exception is "Standards-Version", which I see as
being Debian-specific.
To help give an example of what I'm talking about, the design document
for the Perl5 version of this metadata model is here:
http://perlsoftpackmet.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/perlsoftpackmet/main/doc/
Click on the number in the "Rev" column to see the actual document.
It would probably make sense to refactor S22 into a more spec-like document.
Agreed; it may need to be split into two, or something. I'll send a
separate message to the list about it.
:)
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