From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 02:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fb7f16d-5a73-95f7-7b2b-064db5a2b950@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6190dfa-c981-7ede-f767-df08a78f6f36@cornell.edu>
On 2017-10-02 15:19, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/2/2017 4:39 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Ken Brown writes:
>>> On 9/30/2017 4:52 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>> Am 29.09.2017 um 20:06 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz:
>>>>> texinfo
>>>>
>>>> Installs under /usr/share/texinfo and seems to use captive Perl
>>>> distributions, maybe we should change that (i.e. move
>>>> perl-libintl-perl, perl-Text-Unidecode etc. to their own CPAN
>>>> derived package).
>>>
>>> More importantly, it installs compiled XS modules into /usr/lib/texinfo.
>>
>> I need to have a look on what the main GNU/Linux distributions are doing
>> with this.
>
> It's the same on Debian:
>
> Â https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/texinfo/filelist
>
> I haven't checked any other.
>
>> 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.
Debian/Ubuntu have libintl{-,-xs-}perl packages but not as texinfo dependencies.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 20:05 [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1-RC1 Achim Gratz
2017-09-18 17:18 ` Ken Brown
2017-09-18 18:00 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-18 20:00 ` Ken Brown
2017-09-25 21:21 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-26 8:23 ` Ken Brown
2017-09-18 17:52 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-19 6:11 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-19 17:35 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-24 9:09 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-09-24 9:25 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-24 17:24 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-09-29 20:48 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-09-30 8:15 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-24 15:59 ` [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1 Achim Gratz
2017-09-24 17:16 ` Ken Brown
2017-09-24 17:22 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-29 18:26 ` Jon Turney
2017-09-26 16:45 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-29 18:06 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-30 8:52 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-30 15:25 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-02 20:39 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-02 21:20 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-03 2:36 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2017-10-03 6:35 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-30 21:13 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-10-01 4:47 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-10-02 20:41 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-30 22:49 ` Alexey Sokolov
2017-10-01 8:13 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-09 16:41 ` Ken Brown
2017-09-26 16:50 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-26 18:56 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-26 20:42 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-26 22:15 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-27 4:51 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-27 6:46 ` [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1 (prepare for release) Achim Gratz
2017-09-30 20:30 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-10-04 17:24 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-12 19:32 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-12 20:34 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-13 18:02 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-18 18:20 ` [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1 (release is imminent) Achim Gratz
2017-10-18 20:21 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-18 22:16 ` David Rothenberger
2017-10-23 17:17 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-10-23 17:38 ` Jon Turney
2017-10-23 18:03 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-23 18:37 ` Jon Turney
2017-10-19 6:04 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-10-19 15:00 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-10-19 17:15 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-23 17:47 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-10-24 8:37 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2017-10-23 19:20 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-24 16:22 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-24 18:45 ` Achim Gratz
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