[ITA/ITP] lots of perl distributions
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 9 01:34:00 GMT 2015
On Sun, 2015-03-08 at 20:28 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> I'm ready for the upload, but there's one thing I don't know how to
> handle correctly: I'm obsoleting perl-LWP in favor of perl-libwww-perl
> (that's the actual distribution name and it is needed for automated
> checking of dependencies via CPAN or MetaCPAN). Cygport provides an
> obsoletion package _inside_ the perl-libwww-perl directory and points to
> it as an external source. I think that upset might be upset when it
> finds the existing perl-LWP directory, so how is this obsoletion
> supposed to work in reality?
upset does indeed live up to its name in such a case, so we need to
rearrange directories on sourceware to match the new layout. I have
done so for perl-LWP, so please proceed.
--
Yaakov
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