Bug#988750: YAML dependencies should be optional/suggested

[dcook at prosentient.com.au]

Thanks for looking into this, gregor. I'm looking forward to Tina's response
as well. 

David Cook
-----Original Message-----
From: gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> 
Sent: Saturday, 22 May 2021 3:35 AM
To: dcook at prosentient.com.au; 988750 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#988750: YAML dependencies should be optional/suggested

Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=136486

On Wed, 19 May 2021 10:09:54 +1000, dcook at prosentient.com.au wrote:

> The Debian package requires that libyaml-perl or libyaml-syck-perl be 
> installed, but it is possible to use this package without either of 
> those YAML modules. You can specify your own YAML parser (like YAML::XS).

Thanks for bringing this up.
 
> There is some discussion about this on CPAN:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=136485
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=136486

It's a bit tricky from a packaging point of view; I've replied in
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=136486
and I'm looking forward to working with Tina on this issue.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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