On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:14:28PM -0400, Koen van der Drift wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just noticed that the current version of soap-lite-pm in fink, which >>> I maintain, is not available anymore on cpan (http:// >>> search.cpan.org/ >>> dist/SOAP-Lite/). The package database lists version 0.69, but only >>> 0.60a is listed on cpan. >>> >>> Is it ok to downgrade the package in fink, or will that create >>> problems, eg with the bindist? >> >> Downgrading can be problematic for users who have already installed >> the "new" version...technically you'd want the downgraded version to >> be *higher* than the new one, so that they "upgrade" to the "current >> version in fink". Probably use Epoch:1 and a higher Revision on the >> new old-version .info. >> >> However, I think 0.69 (and 0.67 and 0.68) are on fink's master- >> mirrors >> pool, so users can just get it from there. All depends *why* the >> upstream author downgraded so substantially. >> > > I have mailed the developer and asked him which version we can use. > For now I'll leave it at 0.69. > > - Koen.
FYI, this was due to a bug in CPAN. CPAN recently introduced a feature to prevent people from hijacking namespaces and it was a little too aggressive for community-maintained libraries like SOAP- Lite. It should be all better now. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
