Bug#473304: libhtml-wikiconverter-perl and friends

[Rene Mayorga]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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:
> >> 
> >> 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.

No problem :)

> 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.

The suggest was to add info to the POD and html2wiki binary in order to notice
the users about that the package was splitted.

IMHO having a dep in a virtual package will get the users to install the
first package which provide the virtual package, this could have a false bug
reports telling us that we are missing $foo wiki dialect.

I have no strong opinion about which is the best way to handle this
issue, thats the reason why I was asking for more input from you or the
debian-perl folks :)

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

Sounds nice for me, but I also think that we should add the notice in POD
and html2wiki to catch more despite users :).

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

Having a dep on all the submodules will came to have a bunch of modules
installed, this also will follow to have the need to add a depend to
every -dialect module that could be added to the archive.


Cheers.

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