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Re: advice needed for packaging - Time-modules



Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > It's also useful for libraries that do provide an executable script or
> > two, such as Mail::SPF, which I intend to package shortly (it's the
> > successor of Mail::SPF::Query).  The mail-spf-perl source package has
> > two binary packages: libmail-spf-perl and spf-tools-perl (containing
> > two executable scripts that use Mail::SPF).
>
> Separate package just for two scripts? What's the reason to split this?

Packages named "lib*" shouldn't contain executables, should they?  Also, 
there's a chance that spf-tools-perl might one day become independent of 
(or at least not solely dependent on) Mail::SPF if other Perl-based SPF 
tools are added.

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