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[EvanCarroll <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take ownership, just to get you up to date. The response from Debian,
where this bug should be fixed by all accounts, was "CPAN is not
supported." You see, they don't think this a problem and they use other
like violations to justify this one. Hacking stuff into a module for
them, ensures that other things that use that module will get the
behavior Debian wants. Which sits opposite to the genius of a perl
package management system, and other generally supported means of doing
this through subclassing, and forking.

In perl the mindset is do whatever you want, just do it such that it
doesn't break whatever I want. In Debian the mindset is do what I want
and if it breaks I don't care, and if you replace it you're unsupported.

I've submitted an offer to subclass and change dependencies on Debian to
an XML::SAX::Debian, but that doesn't solve Debian's desire to screw up
things not created by them. There was talk about changing the @INC path
for all base-debian-scripts, but again this hasn't been done (as far as
I can see), and it is still broken by the above.

The issue here is simple: either Debian has the right to alter
fundamental behaviors of things they haven't created and publish them
under the same name to break things that rely on them, or Debian
doesn't. Debian continues to argue they do. This isn't a massive
technical bug, it is a minor technical bug layered on top of a huge
political one whereby all of the Debian perl team is retarded. They're
behavior of /wanting/ to break my system and telling me that theirs
holds precedence in light of an option to have two systems that can play
together is insulting at best.

** Changed in: libxml-sax-perl (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: EvanCarroll (evancarroll) => (unassigned)

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CPAN's XML::SAX update conflicts with libxml-sax-perl's XML::SAX
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13917
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