mongodb driver

[Dominique Dumont]

Hello Thomas

On Thursday 24 January 2013 00:37:58 Thomas Krichel wrote:
> root at rishu ~ # aptitude show libmongodb-perl | grep ^Version
> Version: 0.45-1+b1
> 
>   I am told by the upstream maintainer that this is quite old.
>   Indeed
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~friedo/MongoDB-0.503.3/lib/MongoDB.pm

Agreed. MongoDB was already oldish by the time of the freeze. But it's now 
freeze time to prepare for next debian release, so update have also slowed 
down.

In MongoDB case, it's too late to update the package for wheezy.

On the other hand, updating the package for unstable or experimental is 
possible.

> 
>   Attempting a local install I get
> 
> archec at rishu:/tmp/MongoDB-0.503.3$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/usr
> Warning: prerequisite DateTime::Tiny 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.59 not found. We have 6.5705.
> Warning: prerequisite Test::Exception 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Test::Warn 0 not found.
> Writing Makefile for MongoDB
> Writing MYMETA.yml
> archec at rishu:/tmp/MongoDB-0.503.3$ exit
> 
>   I have not been successful finding these as packages on wheezy.

You should look for missing package with axi-cache. For instance:
$ axi-cache search DateTime::Tiny
2 results found.
Results 1-2:
100% libdatetime-tiny-perl - lightweight datetime object module
39% xfce4-goodies - enhancements for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment

ExtUtils::MakeMaker is another problem. Most of the time, the version in the 
dependency is added automatically during the build of the module distribution. 
Hopefully, MongoDB build will work with v 6.5705. If not, please get back to 
us.

>   It look like Perl is late on Debian.
> 
>   I am a 10+ year Debian user, but I have never maitained a package.
> 
>   What can I do to help?

You can join the team to help packaging. See:

 http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup#How_to_get_involved

Last but not least, pkg-perl-maintainer list is mostly used for automated 
communications. Mail are likely to get lost. You have a better chance of 
getting a reply on debian-perl at list.debian.org (cc'ed)


All the best

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