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Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 08:34:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1
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Ken Brown writes:
>> I need to have a look on what the main GNU/Linux distributions are doing
>> with this.
>
> It's the same on Debian:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/texinfo/filelist
>
> I haven't checked any other.
Looks like SuSE splits into texinfo / makeinfo /info paclages, but
otherwise seems to handle these the same. It does split out
perl-text-Unidecode and externalizes it in the configury, though.
>> WOuld it be possible to cleanly excise those as dependent
>> packages?
>
> I could certainly do that, but I wouldn't want to unless there's a
> GNU/Linux model to follow. I don't think Cygwin should use special
> packaging that no one else uses.
Certainly not, I am still a bit surprised at that way of installing
things, though.
Regards,
Achim.
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