perl DateTime packaging question

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:35:52AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:45:02PM -0400, David Mansfield wrote:
> > > In this case, DateTime, DateTime-TimeZone and DateTime-Locale are all
> > > part of perl-DateTime, but they are different CPAN  'entities' with
> > > different release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.
> > >
> > > Is this just an issue of packager discretion?
> >
> > It is, although shipping different packages in one (with different
> > release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.) is bad practice. Normally
> > this is raised during reviews, but not here.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/167376
> 
> Said the submitter:
> "This package is a bit odd.  To avoid circular dependencies, I've bundled 
> DateTime, DateTime::Locale, and DateTime::TimeZone."

How could I miss it! Believe me or not, I had a look at the review...
Anyway this seems right then, although a comment in the spec would be
nice.

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Pat