On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 12:37, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> So, it's safe to say that leaving the .pm files in /usr/lib does not
> violate policy?
anthony@bohr:anthony$ find /usr/lib -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm' | wc -l
312
anthony@bohr:anthony$ find /usr/lib -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm' -print0 | xargs -0 dpkg -S | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort -u | wc -l
33
And I don't have that many perl packages installed.
"In each of the directory pairs above, the lib component is for
binary (XS) modules, and share for architecture-independent
(pure-perl) modules." (Perl Policy, 1.3)
Either there are a lot of policy violations (yes, I realize that _some_
of those files may be architecture dependent after all), or policy
should be changed to accept the above.
[ I'm not on debian-perl --- please cc me on replies. ]
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