Bug#698790: libio-compress-perl: some man pages are not found

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:17:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Control: block -1 with 698808
> 
> [Re-added Cc: 698790 at bugs.debian.org]

Oops, thanks!
 
> > > Then I think that the high-level modules should be provided by
> > > libio-compress-perl ("This package contains all IO::Compress and
> > > IO::Uncompress modules: [...]").
> > Hm, in general we are not very keen on diverging from upstream, and
> > tearing apart upstream distributions and recombining them in our
> > packages sounds more like a road to headache or chaos ...
> OK, I hadn't noticed that this was an upstream choice and I
> misinterpreted the package description, which is a bit ambiguous
> due to its wording (the intent is to provide all modules from
> the IO-Compress distribution, not all IO::Compress::* and
> IO::Uncompress::* modules).

Oh, right, this is misleading.
Probably historically grown, it maybe were "all" modules when they
were put together into this distribution upstream after having been
distributed separately earlier (cf. the Replaces/Provides/Breaks on
the old package that are still there).

I guess, "This package contains the following ... modules" or
something similar would be more clear.


Cheers,
gregor
 
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