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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel