-=| Jonathan Yu, Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:04:14PM -0400 |=- > I've been invited by Rob Kinyon and Matt S. Trout (both prominent > Perl authors, and both who attend many Perl conferences) to compile > a list of things we in Debian would like to see in Perl modules more > often. Basically, we want to ensure there is good communication > between the Perl community and the Debian Perl Group, to make sure > that all of our needs are satisfied. > > I have begun to compile a list on the Wiki here: > http://wiki.debian.org/JonathanYu/Perl_Packager_Wishlist -- feel free > to contribute if you have an account, or otherwise you can bug me on > IRC or reply to this mail to add it. I wonder if my usual rant about Module::Install deserves a place there. In the core, is boils down to: * M:I code is copied in every dist that uses it. we have already suffered by a bug that has spread over several packages. Code duplication is bad. * the code that is copied in the distribution lacks any copyright/licensing information. We have to *guess*, which is never good; authors may have put their work inder inc/ too. If someone could extract a polite whishlist items/bugreports from the above, I'd be very grateful. I won't do it myself because (1) I feel rather emotional when thinking about M:I and IMO emotions have no place in what is supposed to be a technical discussion; (2) My level of contribution to pkg-perl is so low that I don't feel as a representative of the group.
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