Re: Suggests on libhtml-parser-perl and libtext-template-perl
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> Lintian does not appear to be using libhtml-parser-perl nor
> libtext-template-perl (anymore?). libtext-template-perl is used by the
> test suite and harness, but since none of them are shipped in the
> lintian package, it seems weird to suggest them.
> If it is to mind ourselves what reporting/{harness,$co} needs, then it
> is outdated (missing liburi-perl) and it would probably be better to
> write for us to write an outcommented lintian-harness stub where we add
> those.
It's there for reporting, and I do think that we should Suggest everything
required by the reporting scripts, at least until we've created a separate
package for the (less commonly used) reporting code and can elevate them
to dependencies in that package.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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