Bug#473304: libhtml-wikiconverter-perl and friends

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Hi Rene,

I've sent a copy of this response to the bugreport mentioned.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:40:07PM -0400, Rene Mayorga wrote:
>On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:44:00PM -0600, Rene Mayorga wrote:
>> (CC'ing Jonas, because I'm not sure if he is subscribed to this list)
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> after IRC with dam and gregoa about a nice way to solve #473304
>> there come two solutions:
>> 
>> Add a _Provides:_ field to libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl and 
>> other dialects providing a virtual package, wich could be at 
>> _Recommends:_ field from libhtml-wikiconverter-perl.
>> 
>> 
>> Damyan suggested to add _Enhance:_ field to wikiconverter-mediawiki, 
>> and -moinmoin, also add a notice to html2wiki(provided by 
>> libhtml-wikiconverter-perl) binary telling that the package is now 
>> splitted into several dialects packages;
>> with this solution there is a need to drop _Provides:_ added by Jonas 
>> to libhtml-wikiconverter-moinmoin-perl.
>> 
>> I'm sending this email to have more input about the preferred way to 
>> handle the relationship between this packages, also, expecting some 
>> input from Jonas who inject the packages to the group svn :)
>> 
>Since there was no input, I'm applying Damyan Suggest.
>I'll move -wikicoverter-perl to unstable so it can reach the upload 
>queue, and since the new version of libhtml-wikiconverter-perl the 
>Recommends to the virtual package will be dropped

Sorry for my late response.

I agree that packaging the submodules formerly part of the main module 
is needed.

But I do not see how dropping the recommendation for a virtual package 
shared among all submodules, and replacing that with suggesting only the 
submodules formerly part of the module, can solve this bug.

Either we just admit that the package has changed, and warn about that 
in debian/NEWS.

Or we make the main package depend on the submodules formerly part of 
the module.


  - Jonas

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