[SCM] Debian packaging of Task-Weaken CPAN distribution branch, master, updated. debian/1.03-1-15-gefb9201
gregor herrmann
gregoa at debian.org
Sat Mar 30 13:25:51 UTC 2013
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 97d835234b7b836691c369aafc9c5ee8b9fad095
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 30 14:23:46 2013 +0100
Update short and long description.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d1847b4..2184bf6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Package: libtask-weaken-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
${perl:Depends}
-Description: Ensure that a platform has weaken support
+Description: module for ensuring that a platform has weaken support
One recurring problem in modules that use Scalar::Util's weaken function is
that it is not present in the pure-perl variant.
.
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ Description: Ensure that a platform has weaken support
versions, don't include the XS version, and so weaken is then "missing" from
the platform, despite passing a dependency on Scalar::Util successfully.
.
- Most notably this is RedHat Linux at time of writing, but other come and go
- and do the same thing, hence "recurring problem".
- .
The normal solution is to manually write tests in each distribution to ensure
that weaken is available.
-
+ .
+ Task::Weaken restores the functionality testing to a dependency you do once
+ in your Makefile.PL, rather than something you have to write extra tests for
+ each time you write a module.
--
Debian packaging of Task-Weaken CPAN distribution
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