On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:43:02PM -0800, John M. Gabriele wrote: > --- Kenneth Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org> wrote: > > > So my questions to this list are: > > > > > > 1. Why doesn't the "apt-cache show" description usually list the > > > module names? (I see that it *is* properly listed for, say, the > > > libtext-template-perl package.) > > > > Careful with that word "properly". :) > > Yes, I see. That sentence would've been shorter and more clear > without that extra word. :) Well, in the context of Debian packages, "proper" would typically mean "compliant to policy" or something like that. This is all I meant. > > I think that quite a few Debian Perl packages do list the module name in > > their package description. I've done it in most of my Perl packages > > over the past few years. However, there are going to be some CPAN > > packages (large ones, I mean) for which it is kind of impractical to > > list all of the provided modules in the package description. > > > > So, one possible answer to your question is that it wasn't really > > practical in this case. Another is that the Debian packager didn't > > think it was worthwhile. As an example, I don't personally think it is > > worthwhile for my own libxmltv-perl package. [snip] > > How can your users find out which Perl modules come with > your Debian package (without actually installing it to find > out)? I think you got a technical answer to this in another reply (a much better answer than I originally gave you, by the way). However, I think you're also asking why I don't personally think it's worthwhile to list the modules that libxmltv-perl provides. One reason is that there are a lot of them. Another reason is that the typical user will never develop directly against the libxmltv-perl package. It only exists as a dependency for use by other packages like xmltv-util and xmltv-gui. So, adding the information to the description just doesn't seem worthwhile. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
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