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Re: Bug#736820



On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:39:56 +0000, Daniel Lintott wrote:

> I've been taking a look at the following bug report [1], which triggered
> a package removal from testing today.

Thanks!
 
> Looking at documentation on metacpan and the source code, I can see that
> all the included examples do require the two packages that aren't
> packaged (not sure whether it warranted a grave severity or not).

Ack.
 
> Packaging of these isn't going to be a small task due to the number of
> required dependencies.
> 
> 1st Batch (required by 2nd batch):
>     + Carp - https://metacpan.org/release/Carp
> 
> 2nd Batch (required by 3rd batch):
>     + IO - https://metacpan.org/release/IO
>     + Time-HiRes - https://metacpan.org/release/Time-HiRes
>     + Net-IPv6Addr - https://metacpan.org/release/Net-IPv6Addr

Carp, IO, and Time::HiRes are in perl core (or are newer versions
needed?), Net::IPv6Addr is in libnet-ipv6addr-perl.
 
> 3rd Batch (required by 4th batch):
>     + Net-Frame-Dump - https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Frame-Dump
>     + Net-Frame-Layer-ICMPv6 -
> https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Frame-Layer-ICMPv6
>     + Net-Frame-Layer-IPv6 -
> https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Frame-Layer-IPv6
>     + Net-Frame-Simple - https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Frame-Simple
>     + Net-Libdnet6 - https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Libdnet6
> 
> 4th Batch:
>     + Net-Frame-Device - https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Frame-Device

The Net::Frame::* modules are indeed not packaged yet ...
 
> Before I go ahead and begin packaging all 10 of these I wanted to get
> the groups' opinion on this and whether it would be worthwhile
> proceeding with this for a package that has a relatively low but rising
> popcon [2], but obviously has user interest.

Hm, no idea, I defer to others :)


Cheers,
gregor

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