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

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Thu Jul 10 15:32:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:14:04 +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:

> > * 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.

Sounds like a good plan IMO.

Just drop us a short note when you make the change, then we can
revert libcgi-pm-perl quickly.

Cheers,
gregor
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