Bug#513971: libcatalyst-perl: tries to overwrite file owned by libcatalyst-manual-perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:13:35 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> > Eloy, I guess you're taking care of this; if you are busy or
> > something just shout.
> What is the intented fix? 

I'd like to have Eloy's opinion since he's the expert and I'm not
completely sure either.

> I think declaring conflict is not an option, 
> I'd expect to be able to install both Catalyst and its manual at the 
> same time :)

Ack. And a Recommends/Suggests cat -> cat-manual maybe.
 
> As I see it, libcatalyst-manual-perl should divert the above two files 
> from libcatalyst-perl.

Sounds like an elegant plan.
The simpler way would be to just remove the 2 files from
libcatalyst-perl.
 
> Both variants suggest installing stuff from CPAN. Should this be 
> patched in the debian packages? For Lenny?

Catalyst consists of a myriad of modules, and AFAIK not all of them
are packaged for Debian yet (or are rather new and only in unstable).
My assumption is that people dealing with catalyst know or find out
where to get stuff.

AFAICS this bug only exists for libcatalyst-perl's version in
unstable (5.71000-1), the version in testing (5.7014-1) doesn't
contain Manual.pm/Catalyst::Manual.3pm.gz: 
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/libcatalyst-perl/filelist

libcatalyst-manual-perl still is at 5.7016-1, maybe this duplication
will be fixed in a 5.71x release and we can get away with some
versioned conflicts and without removing/diverting files?

Cheers,
gregor 
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