Bug #57235 for XML-SAX-Expat: Unclear dependency for XML::SAX::Base

Wed May 05 14:09:01 2010 TODDR [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Unclear dependency for XML::SAX::Base

Currently Expat depends on XML::SAX::Base Unfortunatley, 2 CPAN modules install this pm file. XML::SAX - http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-SAX-0.96/ XML::SAX::Base - http://search.cpan.org/~khampton/XML-SAX-Base-1.02/ Problem 1: XML::SAX::Base is listed as unautorized in CPAN search, even though it comes up as the provider in 02packages.details.txt.gz Problem2: XML::SAX provides a lib/XML/SAX/Base.pm, which if installed later would overwrite XML::SAX::Base's lib file. The owners of Expat seem to mostly own the other 2 and since Expat is the depender, I thought this RT would be the place to sort this out. Right now it really confuses things when packaging them up as RPMs. Thanks,

Wed May 05 14:37:35 2010 TODDR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Upon further research, it looks like the mistake is that XML::SAX has been distributing XML::SAX::Base for some reason. I've opened this ticket against XML::SAX https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57238

Wed May 05 14:37:35 2010 TODDR [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Mar 12 15:45:58 2011 derhoermi [...] gmx.net - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #57235] Unclear dependency for XML::SAX::Base
Date:	Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:45:46 +0100
To:	bug-XML-SAX-Expat [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi [...] gmx.net>

* Todd Rinaldo via RT wrote: Show quoted text

>Wed May 05 14:09:01 2010: Request 57235 was acted upon. >[...]

I've asked on perl-xml@listserv.ActiveState.com what people think should be done here, I've not kept that much track of Perl XML developments to have an informed opinion here. (I've copied you on the message.) -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/

Tue Mar 15 13:58:48 2011 BJOERN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Per http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml/6536 it seems there is some agreement that this is not something that should be fixed in this module.

Tue Mar 15 13:58:49 2011 BJOERN [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Tue Mar 15 23:25:33 2011 TODDR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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derhoermi [...] gmx.net

Sorry, I'm confused. The referenced url seems to indicate that the plan is to include XML::SAX::Base as it's own CPAN distro and to remove it from the other modules, depend on it, and publish a new version. Is that correct? Thanks for your time on this, Todd

Tue Mar 15 23:25:34 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'