On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has > temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: > > Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to > the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports > sent by users. Rather than wait any longer for the upstream > Date::Manip to incorporate the fixes I have made my own release > (intended as a temporary measure, not a permanent fork)... I've > updated xmltv to require this version of the module (since it does > fix several fairly important problems). > > I'm not entirely sure what to do with this. [...]
A third option would be to use the dpkg diversion on libdate-manip-perl files to install the fixed version. That's clearly an ugly hack, but it could do the trick until either libdate-manip-perl upstream or its maintainer do something to get the issues fixed. Thanks, Mt. -- Les rebelles disaient que les débutants avaient le droit d'utiliser un "éditeur", qui ressemblait à MSWord comme sa mère à Pamela Anderson. "Vihaille" comme les rebelles l'appellaient, était sans doute un bizutage -- L'histoire des pingouins