Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> 
> > David H. wrote:
> >
> >> fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual
> >> dependency. The candidates:
> >> 
> >> (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with filehandles
> >> 
> >> Since I wish to install soap-lite-ssl for Perl 5.8.1 and it seems to
> >> be a versioned perl modules, should this not imply that I want to
> >> install io-stringy-pm581 as well since I would want io-stringy to
> >> match the Perl version I am installing the main module for ? As I
> >> will admit to know little about our Perl handling, please enlighten me and 
> >> show me the path to wisdom :)
> >
> > Looks like there's stuff depending on io-stringy-pm instead of 
> > io-stringy-pm5XX.  I've fixed the two I maintain, I'm cc'ing the maintainer 
> > of the other 2 packages that do so (rtf-tokenizer-pm and rtf-parser-pm).
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if my modules are supposed to be versioned, and I'm not
> sure if io-stringy is supposed to be versioned. If io-stringy is not,
> I'm going to wait to see if it's going to be changed.
> 
> In other words, I'm thinking about the problem but not doing anything
> about it right away.
> 

Please consult the packaging manual.

It is no longer permitted to have a "placeholder" -pm package which depends
on versioned packages.  The only exception is storable-pm, because of the
historical way it is used during bootstrapping.

Whoever added such a package, please don't do it again.

  -- Dave



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