Re: pkg/42155: lang/perl5 vs. DB_File module required for www/ikiwiki

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42155: lang/perl5 vs. DB_File module required for www/ikiwiki
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:16:51 +0300

  >>  perl5 is imho too important to risk breaking for a Linux fix that may
  >>  cause unforseen problems on other platforms. Please hold this until
  >>  after the branch, but feel free to request a pullup later, after it's
  >>  gotten some testing.
 >  
 >  If I understand correctly there were no objections against commiting.
 >  Freeze is in the past. I've checked patch perl under NetBSD-5/pkgsrc-2009Q3.
 >  It is built fine and PLIST doesn't change.
 >  perl -V also doesn't show significant difference.
 
 My patch introduces the problem.
 
http://mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-distbb/Linux/current/logs/20091016.2105/net_p5-Net-LibIDN_p5-Net-LibIDN-0.12/stage_configure.html
 
 After some thoughts I came to a conclusion that it is better to revert my
 original proposal and to *remove* DB_File extension from perl on all
 platforms including NetBSD. In this case perl will become lighter and
 packages requering DB_Fill (e.g. ikiwiki) should depend on
 databases/p5-DB_File.
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.