[cgiapp] CGI::Session

[Ron Savage]

Hi Nick

On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 14:35 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Ron,
> 	You put an explicit version on every dependency. For example
> Data::Dumper 2.128. That seems unnecessarily modern and Debian curently
> only has 2.125. If we added the latest version as a package it might
> need to be removed again later on.

I put in the version #s as per what I have installed.
I'm using perlbrew & V 5.12.2.
I'll examine how to wind back these requirements...
I had a look at /usr/lib/perl/5.10.1/Data/Dumper.pm and it says V 2.124.
I could do that for each pre-req.

> 	Also do we really need all this DBIx stuff?

The test code uses DBIx::Admin::CreateTable and DBIx::Admin::DSNManager.
Data::Session doesn't. Of course that code could be re-written and
included within Data::Session without those modules. I'm reluctant to do
that, because there's already a Deb package for DBIx::Admin::CreateTable
(that's why 'All rights reserved' was removed from the licence section
in V 2.06), and I believe DBIx::Admin::DSNManager deserves its own Deb
package. Nevertheless, if you think it's worth rewriting that code, feel
free to say so.


> On 06/07/11 01:01, Ron Savage wrote:
> > Hi Nick
> > 
> > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 17:45 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> >> Ron,
> >> 	I was commenting because the Debian Perl group's systems are confused
> >> by this state of affairs. Whatever my personal opinions of the relevant
> >> merits of CGI::Session and Data::Session the Debian package still needs
> >> to be kept uptodate.
> > 
> > OK. I didn't realize the Debian context. I don't know why it would be
> > flagged as unauth. I assume Mark uploaded it. Also, why does a standard
> > CPAN search return 4.43?
> > 
> > I don't do maintenance on CGI::Session any more, so we'll have to wait
> > for Mark to help out.
> > 
> >> 	You did once say you would look into getting Data::Session into Debian
> >> yourself. I can still do it for you if you prefer.
> > 
> > I did not get around to that. I'd be grateful if you could arrange for a
> > Debian-style release.
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> 
> 

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