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On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:32:45 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:27:21PM +0000, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > > Quoting Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> from ml.lang.perl.porters: > > :Any thoughts about the best way of making this cleaner, or why we > > :shouldn't? > > > > Recent metaconfig output the following at the head of Configure: > > > > --------- > > # Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than > > # working with this copy of Configure, you may wish to get metaconfig. > > # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: > > # svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dist/code/trunk/dist > > > > # $Id: Head.U 167 2013-05-08 17:58:00Z rmanfredi $ > > # > > # Generated on Mon Sep 1 20:38:21 CEST 2014 [metaconfig 3.5-181] > > --------- > > > > This clearly states where the dist package (which contains metaconfig) > > can be found and which version of metaconfig was used. > > > > The Perl distribution must come with its own set of units (in the U directory) > > when it supersedes the default units or adds extra ones, so that anyone can > > regenerate the Configure script, if needed. > > > > Why would that be violating Debian guidelines? There are other packages > > distributed by Debian which are using metaconfig, and that way of proceeding > > has never been a problem. Moreover, "dist" itself is also part of Debian. > > Two reasons: the units are not distributed with the perl source > but in a separate repository, I do not see a problem in that, as the units are not needed to build perl itself. The sources ARE readily available > and the version of dist used doesn't appear to be readily available. It now is. See commits http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/commit/b794565aa24a9ff18e19cb1352d6f0715cd5d637 http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/commit/c402af1253059015c7f79e8625b3367cddcda5cd > Dominic. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next