[Po4a-devel] New release coming soon

[D. Barbier]

On 2012/5/17 David Prévot wrote:
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> Le 13/05/2012 01:19, D. Barbier a écrit :
>> On 2012/5/13 David Prévot <david at tilapin.org>:
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>>> Debian Wheezy is expected to be
>>> frozen soon, and it would be nice to include this update.
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>> Hmmm, I will try to make this release, but have many other things to
>> do, feel free to do it yourself if you want.
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> I've update the Subversion repository with some last bits (NEWS entry
> and date), and the Debian part too. The built packages are available online:
>
>        http://people.debian.org/~taffit/po4a/
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> I didn't uploaded them yet because I have a doubt: when I build po4a on
> my host, it uses Module::Build 0.40 from libmodule-build-perl, but when
> I build the Debian package in a clean chroot (with pbuilder), it uses
> Module::Build 0.38 from perl-modules (despite the explicit
> libmodule-build-perl build-dependency, that is indeed installed during
> the build process). As a consequence, the Debian package build fails
> (using the “old” Module::Build 0.38, while expecting the 0.40 version).
>
> As a workaround, I removed libmodule-build-perl from my machine, built
> po4a with Module::Build 0.38, and build the Debian package in pbuilder.
>
> I wonder if the libmodule-build-perl added eight years ago still make
> sense (maybe perl-modules didn't shipped it back then). Maybe should we
> simply remove it from the build-dependencies (even Build-Conflicts-Indep
> on it maybe)? I have no idea how to force its use in a clean chroot, but
> it could be another option.

Hello David,

Thanks for working on this.  The problem is that perl-modules provides
libmodule-build-perl, so a conflict is not possible.  IMO there is
nothing to do, you only have to uninstall libmodule-build-perl from
your machine.

> I'll be away in the coming days, but if the proposed workaround is OK, I
> should be able to release it as is (at least the Debian part, that's
> easy) tomorrow morning (UTC-4). I may not be able to do anything after
> that, until the end of the month (might still be OK Debian side, but
> thanks in advance if someone can find some spare time to release it with
> a proper fix in the mean time).
>
> A draft is ready in html/index.php.en, but I didn't update the PO files
> in www: I'd welcome a proofread first, and the date may be changed too.

I will take care of the website, do not worry about that.

Denis