Xyne wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:08 -0500 > Daenyth Blank <daenyth+a...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 14:36, Cedric Staniewski <ced...@gmx.ca> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> There are several packages in the AUR which provides exactly the same >>> package as perl-libwww from extra does. Apparently, it is a pacpan related >>> issue and therefore these packages are required by other ones. Deleting >>> them is likely no solution as they will get uploaded again by another >>> pacpan user. >>> >>> Cedric >>> >>> >>> => perl-http-headers >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25730 >>> >>> => perl-http-request >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25736 >>> >>> => perl-http-response >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25735 >>> >>> => perl-lwp-simple >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27566 >>> >>> => perl-lwp-useragent >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25734 >>> >> I'm going to cc this to xyne > > > Thanks. > > > This is because perl-libwww only provides libwww-perl in the PKGBUILD > when in it actually provides over 50 modules/packages. I'll open a > ticket on the bug tracker and then take care of the listed pacakges in > the AUR. > > I'll post any updates here. >
Thanks. I thought about that again and am curious if there is a name convention for CPAN source files. It might make sense to set pkgname to 'perl-' the name of the source file (lowercase and without version and suffix, of course) by default in pacpan generated PKGBUILDs, even though libwww is an exception again. > > Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to ask everyone packaging CPAN > modules to at least look at the provides string generated by pacpan. It > cross-references all names with their associated source files to > generate a comprehensive list. > They should definitely look at the PKGBUILD before uploading them. I have seen provide arrays with items like 'modulename=undef' and there is a new license introduced by these PKGBUILDs called '~'. But that is the drawback of such tools; they make it so easy to generate PKGBUILDs and thus you get quantity but often less quality. > > Regards, > Xyne