perl DateTime packaging question

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:41:23PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "PD" == Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> writes:
> 
> PD> It is, although shipping different packages in one (with different
> PD> release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.) is bad
> PD> practice. Normally this is raised during reviews, but not here.
> 
> Well, this was explained in the review ticket:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=167376
> 
> "This package is a bit odd.  To avoid circular dependencies, I've
>  bundled DateTime, DateTime::Locale, and DateTime::TimeZone."
> 
> I'm not sure of the best way to avoid those circular dependencies, but
> surely bundling a few closely related and very small modules is low on
> the hierarchy of packaging sins.

I think that it is perfectly right, in fact.

> PD> I suggest that you open a bug against perl-DateTime.
> 
> Not sure what good it would do, given the above.

Indeed, sorry, I missed the explanation.

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Pat