Bug#698790: libio-compress-perl: some man pages are not found

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: block -1 with 698808

[Re-added Cc: 698790 at bugs.debian.org]

On 2013-01-23 22:53:26 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:45:19 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe it's worth packaging it anyqay (also needs
> > > Compress::Raw::Lzma).
> > I've just submitted a RFP bug for libcompress-raw-lzma-perl:
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698808
> 
> Thanks.
>  
> > Then I think that the high-level modules should be provided by
> > libio-compress-perl ("This package contains all IO::Compress and
> > IO::Uncompress modules: [...]").
> 
> Hm, in general we are not very keen on diverging from upstream, and
> tearing apart upstream distributions and recombining them in our
> packages sounds more like a road to headache or chaos ...

OK, I hadn't noticed that this was an upstream choice and I
misinterpreted the package description, which is a bit ambiguous
due to its wording (the intent is to provide all modules from
the IO-Compress distribution, not all IO::Compress::* and
IO::Uncompress::* modules).

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