perl packaging guidelines

[Paul Howarth]

On 27/07/10 07:50, Iain Arnell wrote:
> Since we no longer have perl version numbers in @INC, I think the
> whole "Directory Ownership" section should be updated to reflect the
> current situation. With a few simple examples. Maybe something like:
>
> In general, perl's hierarchical naming convention for modules does not
> necessarily imply any hierarchical dependencies. For example,
> perl-YAML and perl-YAML-Tiny both install files to
> /usr/share/perl5/YAML; but perl-YAML-Tiny does not require perl-YAML
> (its whole raison d'être is to be a smaller alternative) so both
> packages need to own /usr/share/perl5/YAML directory.
>
> Even where there is some form of hierarchy, the split between
> arch-dependent and noarch packages can cause additional problems.
> Although perl-Moose-Autobox does require perl-Moose,
> perl-Moose-Autobox is a noarch package installing files to
> /usr/share/perl5/Moose whereas perl-Moose is architecture-dependent
> and installs its files to /usr/lib/perl5/Moose. Again, both packages
> need to own their top-level Moose directory.
>
>
> And I wonder if it's worth trying to clarify the role of perl-sig.
> Since we don't have explicit group permissions in pkgdb, adding
> perl-sig to initial-cc may be understood to mean that perl-sig
> provenpackagers are effectively co-maintainers and may update packages
> as and when necessary.

That all sounds fine to me.

Paul.