perl DateTime packaging question

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:45:02PM -0400, David Mansfield wrote:
> I've read the Packaging/Perl guidelines and one thing isn't clear to me
> (specifically, it relates to perl-DateTime package).
> 
> Under what circumstances are separate modules (i.e. bundled separately
> at CPAN) published together in one RPM, and when should it be different
> RPMs?
> 
> 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.

I suggest that you open a bug against perl-DateTime.

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Pat