Bug#563713: libcgi-fast-perl: CGI/Fast.pm should not go in the vendor directory
Niko Tyni
ntyni at debian.org
Mon Jan 4 19:22:00 UTC 2010
Package: libcgi-fast-perl
Version: 5.10.1-8
Quoting Gregor and Brendan in #489928:
> > * in the long run it might be an idea to stop building
> > libcgi-fast-perl from the perl source package, add Fast.pm to
> > libcgi-pm-perl again, and create a dummy transitional package with
> > the usual conflicts/provides/replaces dance for libcgi-fast-perl
> > from the libcgi-pm-perl source package; Brendan and Niko, what do
> > you think about this idea?
>
> For 5.10, I moved the module to the vendor directory which on
> reflection was probably a bad idea (debian/rules:233-236). I'd say
> that the simplest solution would be to just reverse that decision,
> which would allow libcgi-pm-perl to provide a newer version without
> the path conflict.
This has been totally forgotten, filing a bug about it now.
Relevant debian/rules part:
# relocate CGI::Fast to vendor dir
cd $(build)/libcgi-fast-perl/usr/share && \
mv perl/$(fullversion) perl5 && \
rmdir perl
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