On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:57:18 -0600, "David R. Morrison" <d...@finkproject.org> wrote: Dear Fink developers, > > At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were > limited to Distribution: 10.7 only. Since we will make perl 5.1.23 > available in 10.8, that restriction is no longer necessary or > appropriate. On behalf of the fink-core team, I plan to alter such > packages to expand the restriction to include 10.8. If the versions > of the corresponding .info file in the 10.4 and 10.7 trees are > identical, I will make the change in both places. > > Package maintainers will be notified after I have done this, which > will happen over the next few days.
Beware of packages that have mutually-exclusive variant splitoffs (libfoo-pmXXX-bin that C/R among all XXX). These will need to have the C/R lists updated and Revision bumped rather than just adding the new variant to the Type:perl value list. On the other hand, the very presence of these -bin (and -doc is another common one) is often questionable. Common practice is to use update-alternatives to keep the -bin programs in the main package. In that case, as long as %type_pkg[perl] values sort numerically in the correct order, there's no need to fiddle with anything other than adding the Type value (see module-corelist-pm.info for example, and the legacy pile of C/R crap that no longer needs to be extended because of it). This is just one of the technical advantages for maintainers (and by extention, core) and users rather than a separate package for things that are generally considered "the same single package unit" upstream. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
