Re: dpkg 1.16.3 + bootstrap

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:21:21 -0600, TheSin <[email protected]> wrote:
I've starting working on updating all the debian utils/tools/pkgs and 
in that is dpkg which is very out of date as well as I require a newer 
version for certain tools like debconf. 
>
> in doing so it was also mentioned that we nee dot update the dpkg in 
> bootstrap, well maybe not need but it would be nice to just have the 
> newer version. 
>
> That being said I have it all completed in my experimental dir as 
> well as a fink head fork I made. 
>
> There are a few issues atm, one is that need testing and a few pkgs 
> tested and added to 10.4 from 10.7
>
> time-date-pm, io-string-pm, file-fcntllock-pm

Your file-fcntllock-pm package appears to be fatally broken and against 
perl-module packaging policy because it contains .xs sources (compiled 
C code) but is not perl-versioned. Compiled code makes the module 
intimately and specifically tied to the perl version that compiled it, 
so it's potentially nonportable to other perl-versions (which is why 
our policy explicitly forbids doing it). 

Note that the last time we had fink (core) dependencies on 
perl-versioned things, it led to 5 years of support headaches and 
really isn't a tenable situation if fink itself is going to continue to 
use system-perl. 

dan

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Daniel Macks
[email protected]



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