[Pkg-catalyst-maintainers] RFC libcatalyst-modules-perl

[Florian Ragwitz]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:02:52PM +0100, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> "The policy that all pkg-catalyst packages need to conform to is mainly 
> based upon the Debian Perl policy 
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/).
> 
> There's only one exception. All packages, that are in the CPAN bundle 
> Bundle::Catalyst will be packaged seperately. All other modules will be 
> put into the libcatalyst-modules-perl package, so the archive will not 
> be bloated that much with those tons of Catalyst::* packages that are 
> currently on CPAN. "
> 
> There is one problem - Bundle::Catalyst is not solid, stable list of 
> packages, this list could be changed from time to time (especially when 
> new Big version of Catalyst is released). For example:
> 
> http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2005-November/002550.html
> 
> Then our rule is not quite smart. I propose to drop this rule and make 
> libcatalyst-modules-perl some metapackage.

The problem that was the reason for libcatalyst-modules-perl is that
ftp-masters (namely joerg) don't want the archive to be bloated by
hundreds of small libcatalyst-*-perl package.

What's your suggestion to solve that?


-Flo

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