[Pkg-catalyst-maintainers] aditional packages

Krzysztof Krzyzaniak eloy at kofeina.net
Mon Sep 25 12:39:35 UTC 2006


Bogdan Lucaciu wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 15:24 +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
>> Bogdan Lucaciu wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> First of all, thanks for including Catalyst in Debian.
>>>
>>> There are some modules that would be very useful and are not pacakged:
>>>
>>> - Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst - For testing
>> It's in libcatalyst-modules-perl
> my appologies, I see the sid package has it.
>  
> I am using etch and Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst is not included in
> etch's libmodules-perl . (I should point out that the package info
> mentions Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst although the module is not
> included)

It's quite new addition, it will hit etch eventually.

>>> - DateTime::Format::*  (I use DateTime::Format::Pg.pm) - They are
>>> required in DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime in libdbix-class-perl.
>> So far I use libdatetime-format-strptime-perl
> Thanks for the tip. I will use that myself. 
> 
> DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime is still unusable  though, here's a
> fragment of its Description:
> 
> This module figures out the type of DateTime::Format::* class to
> inflate/deflate with based on the type of DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::*
> that you are using. 

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387628> gregor
herrmann from perl group filled ITP bug against *Mysql so it will be in
sid soon.


>>> And while I'm here, an offtopic question: How would you deploy a
>>> catalyst app on Sarge ("the right way" I mean, without manually
>>> installing packages from CPAN). 
>> right solution is to ask someone from backports.org to keep packages
>> for catalyst uptodate. Unfortunatelly I don't have stable boxes to prepare
>> such packages.
> 
> I am more than willing to maintain the backported packages (if needed),
> but I think I will need some help at start.

Youre welcome. I can help wherever is possible.

  eloy
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