Bug#540338: Confusing manpage

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:31 +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:

> The manpage says the following:
[..] 
>        If you want robust and fast YAML processing using the normal
>        Dump/Load API, please consider switching to YAML::XS.
[..]
> But there isn't any YAML::XS module on CPAN, nor in Debian.

gregoa at belanna:~$ apt-file search YAML/XS.pm
libyaml-libyaml-perl: /usr/lib/perl5/YAML/XS.pm
gregoa at belanna:~$ rmadison libyaml-libyaml-perl
libyaml-libyaml-perl |     0.32-1 |       testing | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libyaml-libyaml-perl |     0.32-1 |      unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

gregoa at belanna:~$ dhomepage libyaml-libyaml-perl
-->
http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML-LibYAML/ 

I agree that this YAML modules are a bit confusing. I guess we should
recommend libyaml-libyaml-perl in libyaml-perl. Before thinking about
patching the manpage I'd rather wait for the transition YAML ->
YAML::Old to finish, since my guess from the manpage [0] is that it
will be rewritten anyway.

Cheers,
gregor

[0]
       The rest of this documentation is left unchanged, until
       YAML.pm is switched over to the new UI-only version.
              
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