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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:58 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

> 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?

I think the discussion was about changing the maintainer timeout, not  
abandoning it, but I don't think it got anywhere. It's still  
documented in the Guide that if a maintainer does not respond to a  
ticket in 72 hours, anybody else can take it, and I recommend still  
following that rule.

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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)
> ----------------------------------- 
> +----------------------------------------
>  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
> ----------------------------------- 
> +----------------------------------------
>  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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> Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16551>
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