Fwd: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)

[C. Florian Ebeling]

I posted a patch for this bug Sep. 16, and the maintainer did
not react. I know there was this maintainer timeout rule, but I
also remember that there was discussion about abandoning it.
Can I apply this change now?

Florian

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Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Subject: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
To: febeling at macports.org, sal at email.arc.nasa.gov
Cc: macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org


#16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
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 Reporter:  febeling at macports.org  |       Owner:  sal at email.arc.nasa.gov
    Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Bugs
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.6.0
 Keywords:                         |        Port:  p5-mac-carbon
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 The cause is a dependency "port:p5-test-simple".

 p5-test-simple overwrites files of the perl5.8 installation, and this
 causes  the failure, if -f is not present. (test-simple depends
 on p5-test-harness, and that has the same problem as test-simple).

 It seems that p5-mac-carbon does not really need the port p5-test-simple,
 so it should be removed as a dependency. There were other ports which
 declared test-simple as a dependency even though they didn't really need
 it, and this is probably just another case.

 Port p5-test-simple does not provide additional packages, but rather an
 update of perl5.8 components. So only ports which depend on these updates
 have to use p5-test-simple. Many may well work without, even if they use
 Test::Simple package.

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Florian Ebeling
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