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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 21:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6190dfa-c981-7ede-f767-df08a78f6f36@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8vhffn9.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

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:

   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.

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 21:20 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 [this message]
2017-10-03  2:36               ` Brian Inglis
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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