Bug#489928: libcgi-pm-perl: tries to overwrite file owned by libcgi-fast-perl

Brendan O'Dea bod at c47.org
Wed Jul 9 15:14:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:53 AM, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:47:48 +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Possible solutions include:
> * make libcgi-pm-perl conflict (and maybe provide) with
>  libcgi-fast-perl; that would mean changing the Priority to extra
>  (also of depending packages)

..or changing the priority of the libcgi-fast-perl to optional.

> * remove Fast.pm from libcgi-pm-perl and depend on libcgi-fast-perl;
>  that's happening right at the moment a few hundred kilometers to
>  the south east from, and maybe the newer package will already be
>  uploaded before this mail is finished :)

Neat.  For the short term, this seems a simple fix.

> * in the long run it might be an idea to stop building
>  libcgi-fast-perl from the perl source package, add Fast.pm to
>  libcgi-pm-perl again, and create a dummy transitional package with
>  the usual conflicts/provides/replaces dance for libcgi-fast-perl
>  from the libcgi-pm-perl source package; Brendan and Niko, what do
>  you think about this idea?

For 5.10, I moved the module to the vendor directory which on
reflection was probably a bad idea (debian/rules:233-236).  I'd say
that the simplest solution would be to just reverse that decision,
which would allow libcgi-pm-perl to provide a newer version without
the path conflict.

--bod





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