Same named packages, different dependencies

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Bernd Radinger wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:27:03 -0500, A1tmblwd at netscape.net
> <A1tmblwd at netscape.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 A1tmblwd at netscape.net wrote:
> > >
> > >> Dag Wieer's package has the least dependencies. After my last
> > >> experience this would appear to be for the good. The code for
> > >> perl-XML-Parser comes from a common source, www.cpan.org.  So, why the
> > >> difference in dependencies?  Why are third-party packagers not using the
> > >> source rpm and spec file from Fedora Core so that this difference in
> > >> dependencies does not occur?
> > >
> > >Because at the point that this was packaged, there was no alternative. My
> > >original package existed before any official one.
> > 
> > Dag, please clarify.  Do you mean that you were the first to put out a perl-XML-Parser for a Redhat/Fedora release and that RedHat/Fedora later added the module to their distribution or do you mean that you were the first to release a package based on CPAN's 2.34 code base?
> 
> probably the latter, because RH8.0 came with that package already:
> 
> /pub/redhat/redhat-8.0/base/i386/RPMS/perl-XML-Parser-2.31-12.i386.rpm
>  
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/perl-XML-Parser/perl-XML-Parser.spec
> * Sat Dec 20 2003 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> - 2.34-0
> - Initial package. (using DAR) 

And at this point RH 8.0 was already EOL.

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