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Re: DEPENDS lines with multiple packages, and old bulk builds (perl)



Jens Rehsack <sno%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> I usually add (and will keep adding) those lines for documentation purposes.
>
> Why? When updating packages, and there're requirements listed like
> requires: {
>   runtime: {
>     Digest: 1,
>     Dancer: 1.3000
>   }
> }
>
> I will always have to look, is Digest 1.x in core or not? Remember, ther're
> more than 100 modules distributed with the perl5 core, and each of them can
> (and will on requirement) have a patched and fixed version on CPAN, because
> core has strict policies about upgrading bundled modules.

OK, but is someone going to fix the bulk code to interpret them
correctly?  Currently it seems to misfire the check that the dependency
has changed.

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